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submitted 7 months ago by boem@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world 6 points 7 months ago (3 children)

What's the new Gmail?

[–] HereIAm@lemmy.world 10 points 7 months ago

I personally swapped over to Proton Mail recently. Exporting over all saved email, groups and labels from Gmail was easy. I love it so far, it's very similar to how Gmail works. I've set Gmail to forward everything to my new one so I don't need to go to back very often.

The only bugbear I have currently is while multi-selecting emails in the inbox, then open one up to read it and back out, the selections aren't remembered. But they are pushing improvements all the time, so I'm sure that will be fixed with time.

[–] hperrin@lemmy.world 8 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (5 children)

Port87? (At least I hope, because I made it. :)

[–] repungnant_canary@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago

That looks... surprisingly promising

[–] repungnant_canary@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Many websites prevent providing aliased Gmail address, how you're planning to address that issue?

[–] hperrin@lemmy.world 4 points 7 months ago

I use a dash (hyphen) instead of a plus. It’s worked everywhere I’ve tried it. You can still use a plus if you want, but the address it shows for a label in the UI is with a dash.

[–] Pacmanlives@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

Interesting idea. I signed up for the waitlist. I keep considering hosting my own email server but it’s a huge pain in the ass just like BIND can be

[–] LucidBoi@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 7 months ago

Signed up for the waitlist, it sounds interesting.

[–] xnx@slrpnk.net 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

This looks nice but my worry is itll be gone in a year or two and then i lose access to accounts and important emails and people are emailing a non existing email. Any step y’all take to prevent this?

[–] hperrin@lemmy.world 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I’m funding the project myself, and I should be able to fund it for many years. Of course the goal is to become profitable, and that will mainly be done through business and enterprise accounts. I’m working on a custom domain feature though, which would allow you to bring your own domain. That way, you could ensure that your email addresses will always be yours.

[–] ArtVandalist@lemmus.org 1 points 7 months ago

Would've could've should've.

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 2 points 7 months ago

I'm looking at Tuta. It's not free (well, they have a crappy free tier), but it's cheap, is end to end encrypted (as much as email can be), has extra address support, and supports custom domains. So if I hate it, I'll switch to something else (maybe ProtonMail). The initial switch from my Gmail will suck, but it'll hopefully be a one-time thing.