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chemicalwonka , (edited )
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Of course it is. e-mail is well established and very widespread for both personal and corporate use, Google would never abandon this service which is actually a great source of collecting personal data from users and non-users and therefore a source of revenue for them

nucleative ,

Google almost killed Gmail for me - I'm on a deprecated google apps free family plan they tried to kill recently. It was going to cost over a hundred dollars a month to move everyone on my personal family domain to a professional plan to keep it, and at the last minute they retreated and kept it free.

But for me that was a warning shot I can't ignore. Way back I ran a Microsoft Exchange server for the family, before that postfix with squirrelmail. But I'm tired of all the tech support that came with it, so some kind of permanent, relatively spam free email option that we call rely on for decades would be welcome.

Scrollone ,

ProtonMail has a family plan, and they promise to encrypt your emails.

PurelyMail is nice and super cheap, the only downside is that it's run by a single guy.

Zoho is like 10 dollars per year per user, even though it's geared towards companies and not families.

daq ,

Proton is way too overpriced for older accounts with a lot of stuff accumulated and encryption is a gimmick unless you're only communicating with other Proton users. All companies encrypt email at rest.

I'm currently using and can definitely recommend purely mail. Obviously backup, but so far the service has been excellent. It's the only fairly priced service out there for personal hosting that supports custom domains.

wax ,

Recently moved to protonmail. The setup was fairly easy, with proton copying all the mails over and setting up forwarding from gmail. I've started to gradually change accounts over. Decided to subscribe as well, even though could manage without.

Scrollone ,

If you buy a custom domain then you won't have to worry in the future, you will be able to switch mail provider without changing your email on any service you use

wax ,

That's a good point. I've considered it before, but always struggle with coming up with a domain name. Also, with respect to tracking a personal domain means that anyone can check the registrar information to find full name, address etc?

Scrollone ,

Many registrars let you hide your personal data from public whois.

In the past I used to suggest Gandi as a good service, but they've been recently bought by a horrible company and they jacked up their prices.

Now I suggest Porkbun! I'm very happy with their service.

wax ,

Alright, will consider it, thanks for the recommendation!

sleepmode ,

I'm finishing up moving all my accounts to Proton. I don't trust them at all anymore. Late stage capitalism at its finest.

foggy ,

Google ditching Gmail would be so many people ditching Google.

MSids ,

Chaotic me wishes they would kill Gmail. The next handful of cool things would surface from the ashes and I could finally cut ties with big G.

puppy ,

The only reason I'm locked into Google is Gmail. If that goes away, I'll purge everything Google from my life in a heartbeat.

Krauerking ,

Wait didn't someone on Lemmy just make the fake Google shutting down Gmail image? Did it spread that far or was there already illiterate idiots already thinking that it was on the way out?

dutchkimble ,

They need it for AI training I guess

Pulptastic ,

For now.

Sometimes those rumors are spread by the OG to test the waters....

werefreeatlast ,

I have a few internal sources that say that gmail will be sunset slowly because Google finds it needs space for AI work.

SugaredScoundrel ,
@SugaredScoundrel@sh.itjust.works avatar

My uncle works at Google and he says they're bringing back Google+

werefreeatlast ,

But with the 15kb limit and the pay as you go $5 for 5mph? Basically you pay more per second the fast you go.

sugartits ,

Oh yeah?

Well my dad's uncle's niece's friend Trish says that Google Reader is coming back.

But maybe don't listen to Trish: she has one tit bigger than the other.

fidodo ,

That would be the dumbest decision ever. Email is a prime space to be revolutionized by AI.

Mio ,

Not a problem. I use my Domain so can easily move elsewhere. And I have a backup of all my mail in my email client.

Scrollone ,

This is good advice for anyone considering to move out of Gmail.

Do not just move to another provider, use your own domain and you'll never have to worry about changing your email address everywhere

CallMeButtLove ,

I'm assuming just to host it and send through an SMTP provider? Even in the self hosting community whenever I see someone ask about running their own email server the answer is usually "don't". I think because dealing with SPF, DKIM, and DMARC isn't usually worth the effort.

AProfessional ,

Nearly every email provider (even Google’s paid version) lets you use a custom domain, self-hosting is optional and probably not recommend for most.

Scrollone ,

Yes, I own a domain (it's like 10 dollars/euros per year) and I just point the records to a third party service like ProtonMail or Purely mail (they give you the exact records you need to input in your DNS panel)

rottingleaf ,

I'd like them to scrap it actually. So much bullshit you have to do setting up an email server so that GMail would accept your, you know, mail. And there's little demand for alternative services cause everybody has MS and Google mail address (or a dozen).

Spam is a bad thing, yes, spammers have to be fought. But again, I personally would prefer only obviously invalid letters (with spoofed From etc) to be discarded this way. There are local spam filters after all for many local clients, which is how you are supposed to use email.

FartsWithAnAccent ,

Yeah, I don't believe you though

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