I am using gmail to host my mail, but I am not however using the @gmail address to receive mail on.
The risk of losing access to my gmail account without any possible recourse is just too big. I'm not afraid of being hacked, but much more so of being wrongly identified as a spammer or whatever else gets you banned from google these days.
I'm using addresses at my own domain as my primary address and I'll have my mail server just forward all mail to google. If I ever lose that google account, I can quickly change the alias and I can continue to receive mail without anybody else having to change anything.
By the way - doing something like this is really, really easy - all of you guys with various VPS and/or EC2 accounts, install an MTA software and add your alias to /etc/aliases. This works out-of-the box with any MTA package out there.
I prefer this over hosting my own mailbox or over any other mail provider because of the (still) unique user interface of gmail. I love the way how archiving mail works and the speed of the web based mail client. After trying to find good mail clients for years and years, gmail is the one that provides the (for me) best user experience. And I'm really, really picky about my mail client choices.
No. Using email with your own domain is very important, especially if you use it for contacting a real person: it unties your email address from a provider. The biggest benefit is that you could switch provider very easily without ever changing your email.
Once you've done so, it no longer matters which email service you are using. If the service ever decided to shut down or shut you off, you can just switch to another service without ever worrying about losing contact.
It goes the same for websites. I used to have my blog on a tumblr subdomain until I wanted to move it to my own domain and hosting. You just can't do a 301 on a tumblr post.
Yes. I don't care at all about the privacy. I do care, very much, that a lot of my digital life is tied to a Google account, and losing that account will effectively kill my online presence. (see, for example, people who've had their Google account hacked and then lost everything else.)
There doesn't appear to be an easy way to export all of that stuff. I'd really like a way to export all my logins and passwords to a CSV file. Yes, I'm aware just how risky storing that file is - I can encrypt it and store it on a USB stick; print it out and keep it in my 'read on death' file with my will; etc.
Personal domain hosted by (free) Google Apps. I'm looking to move away but I don't want to host myself and I can't find anyone decent.
I want to use Gandi email hosting as I've used them before and they seem pretty reliable - however to do that I'd need to transfer my domain from 123-reg and because it's a Spanish domain, it's a bit more difficult. I'd use 123-reg's email but I don't really trust them.
If anyone knows any good email hosting providers, please reply with recommendations.
For those that say yes, is there any reason that you don't get a personal domain, forward it to gmail.com and have Gmail send outbound with your domain?
Mails forwarded to gmail.com are still on Google's servers, isn't it? And they can use it for their data mining if they want. So, I decided against forwarding.
I moved my mail to Webfaction a couple of weeks ago, and I'm in the process of moving my web sites there. Just using Spam Assassin set to delete anything scored 5 or higher, and send to the spam folder anything between 1-4 has more than good enough so far. Webmail is Roundcube, but I'm mostly using Thunderbird.
Webfaction is technically shared hosting, but it's shared hosting unlike anything I've seen elsewhere. I can write my own procmail recipes, set up custom php.ini files for each app I host, and I have SSH access. You could probably install Pine or Mutt id you wanted to.
I have two depending on who I give it to - Newsletters and Signups or people I hardly want to hear from = GMail.com and a Google App one for those I actually want to hear from
I am using my own domain, but after trying self-hosting (downtime stress while I am on vacation) and paid hosting (lacks decent webmail), I now use Google Apps to actually host the email.
My reasons for using my own domain are simple:
* I want to be able to switch whenever I want, without having to email everyone telling me I changed address.
* When I use it professionally, my domain is my "business card", where I host my website with portfolio etc.
I have my own domain that I use as my primary email address, but it redirects everything to my GMail inbox. Just as a safety net if something goes horribly wrong.
Can we have a third option? "I use the gmail service to read my email, but I either use Google Apps for my own domain or forward all my email to gmail."
I'm planning to move to Runbox [1], a Norwegian company. Norway arguably has the some tough privacy laws (than US) and being a European citizen, all the better for me.
My friend is using it and the interface is not as polished as other providers,but definitely worth the money!
It's a gmail address I made when I started using internet (I am 20). But I also have google apps from my domain and every email goes back and forth b/w my gmail and apps account and then to a frequent local backup and obviously one on my website's servers. Just in case google decided to ban my account, no data will be lost.
Yes, but I am in the process of changing that. I'm moving to Fastmail.fm
I'm starting fresh and will be filtering mail by address in future: Gmail for non-personal stuff, signups, mailing lists, etc. My personal domain(s) for friends and important things.
[+] [-] yuvadam|13 years ago|reply
[1] - http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2013/03/26/andrew_we...
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[+] [-] pilif|13 years ago|reply
The risk of losing access to my gmail account without any possible recourse is just too big. I'm not afraid of being hacked, but much more so of being wrongly identified as a spammer or whatever else gets you banned from google these days.
I'm using addresses at my own domain as my primary address and I'll have my mail server just forward all mail to google. If I ever lose that google account, I can quickly change the alias and I can continue to receive mail without anybody else having to change anything.
By the way - doing something like this is really, really easy - all of you guys with various VPS and/or EC2 accounts, install an MTA software and add your alias to /etc/aliases. This works out-of-the box with any MTA package out there.
I prefer this over hosting my own mailbox or over any other mail provider because of the (still) unique user interface of gmail. I love the way how archiving mail works and the speed of the web based mail client. After trying to find good mail clients for years and years, gmail is the one that provides the (for me) best user experience. And I'm really, really picky about my mail client choices.
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[+] [-] sirn|13 years ago|reply
Once you've done so, it no longer matters which email service you are using. If the service ever decided to shut down or shut you off, you can just switch to another service without ever worrying about losing contact.
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[+] [-] DanBC|13 years ago|reply
There doesn't appear to be an easy way to export all of that stuff. I'd really like a way to export all my logins and passwords to a CSV file. Yes, I'm aware just how risky storing that file is - I can encrypt it and store it on a USB stick; print it out and keep it in my 'read on death' file with my will; etc.
[+] [-] davewasthere|13 years ago|reply
http://www.dataliberation.org/
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[+] [-] Auguste|13 years ago|reply
[1] http://www.fastmail.fm
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[+] [-] fakeer|13 years ago|reply
What about the interface(webmail I mean)? Wasn't very encouraging at I had tried their service some time back.
[+] [-] AndrewDucker|13 years ago|reply
Free, too, from before they cancelled their free plans.
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[+] [-] kaolinite|13 years ago|reply
I want to use Gandi email hosting as I've used them before and they seem pretty reliable - however to do that I'd need to transfer my domain from 123-reg and because it's a Spanish domain, it's a bit more difficult. I'd use 123-reg's email but I don't really trust them.
If anyone knows any good email hosting providers, please reply with recommendations.
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[+] [-] csmattryder|13 years ago|reply
Just because my hosting providers ATMail Open service blows, ridiculously difficult to use on iOS, and a hell to setup in a mail client.
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Webfaction is technically shared hosting, but it's shared hosting unlike anything I've seen elsewhere. I can write my own procmail recipes, set up custom php.ini files for each app I host, and I have SSH access. You could probably install Pine or Mutt id you wanted to.
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[+] [-] micheljansen|13 years ago|reply
My reasons for using my own domain are simple:
* I want to be able to switch whenever I want, without having to email everyone telling me I changed address.
* When I use it professionally, my domain is my "business card", where I host my website with portfolio etc.
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[+] [-] shared4you|13 years ago|reply
My friend is using it and the interface is not as polished as other providers,but definitely worth the money!
[1]: http://runbox.com/
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[+] [-] ShaneOG|13 years ago|reply
I'm starting fresh and will be filtering mail by address in future: Gmail for non-personal stuff, signups, mailing lists, etc. My personal domain(s) for friends and important things.