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As long as your email is on your own domain, is it really worth the effort? Do a Google Takeout on a regular basis and handle if if the (improbable) event occur
by parliament32 1y ago
As long as your email is on your own domain, is it really worth the effort? Do a Google Takeout on a regular basis and handle if if the (improbable) event occurs. The likelihood of Google purging your data is basically zero.. we have, what, a half dozen confirmed events over the last decade?
- arthurcolle 1y agoJust set up forwarding to another email provider I was able to get a full dump of 9+ years of emails last month after setting this up Zero thinking. If I need to switch later I can set that up on my time
- parliament32 1y agoIMO it's less about having an archive; more about being able to receive mail at that address. After all, email address is the root of your identity for basically everything on the web -- what's the plan if every account you have is @gmail.com and Google banishes you? Running it through your own domain means you just re-point it at a different provider and keep trucking.
- QuiEgo 1y agoLike the idea, but instead of google takeout, I just have Mail.app on my Mac download my whole email history, and then do Time Machine backups of my Mac to my NAS. If I ever get locked out of my Google account, I’ll flip my domain to a new provider, and be back up in 15 minutes.