> My anxieties over email match yours. A solid intermediate solution is to have your own domain and host your own email server for incoming email. Then google/

> My anxieties over email match yours. A solid intermediate solution is to have your own domain and host your own email server for incoming email. Then google/microsoft/yahoo/et.al. will never be able to lock you out of receiving important email. You can still use a third party to relay outgoing email if you're worried about deliverability like in your example. But you'll never get locked out of receiving.