I have completely stopped using google services and software on my personal devices (even have lineageos + microg on my phone. The problem is that I can’t just explain to the technically uneducated people that I changed mail providers. How should I go about doing this?
Just set up forwarding with a message including the new address. On a related note if your looking to host your own mail server I did for a few years with the docker Mail-in-a-Box. Setup was easy but convincing everyone else’s email providers I wasn’t spam was the hard part.
Yeah fuck hosting your own mail infra if you’re not a big company with lot of money to throw into it. Just not worth the pain
Besides, the benefits of doing it are pretty damn minimal except if you specifically want to learn mail infra
“My new email address is persen@icloud.com”
Done.
No explanation necessary. Just give people the new address.
(Just used icloud as a bad joke there.)
If op still has the gmail an auto response like “this address is no longer checked, please email me at [new email]”
People would just ignore it or send an email later.
Set up auto forwarder from gmail to your new account
Tell people you changed email address
Ez
Autoforwarder and autoreply. Tell them automatically 😊
While you’re at this, get yourself your own domain so should you ever want to move provider again you don’t have to change your mail address again and can just point the new provider to the same domain
God I fucking hate email so much. Why can’t we all agree to move to literally anything else?
I hate it too, I need it and hate it. But it is the standard and honestly if we all switched to whatever else, we would hate that too. The mechanism isn’t the problem, imo, it’s the requirement of maintenance and monitoring.
But it is the standard
Yes, that’s the problem. A standard invented 40 years ago. One we’ve never been able to move away from.
if we all switched to whatever else, we would hate that too.
Absolutely not. There are a dozen different protocols that could solve the problems inherent in email.
it’s the requirement of maintenance and monitoring.
None of those are problems for me.
None of those are problems for me.
What is it that you hate about email, then? You’ve piqued my curiosity.
Threading and formatting. Trying to decipher who said what and when. The increasingly ridiculous size of signatures in every email. Being dropped from an email thread because someone hit reply instead of reply-all. Or the opposite. Being unable to leave email chains. Creating a new email chain every time you send a new subject. Trying to find absolutely anything in my inbox due to the absolute disarray of it all.
Of course Gmail specifically introduces a whole other level of bullshit. Like a completely broken search function, and the inability to block anyone (spammers), the “all mail” option not showing all mail, folders being collapsed in the sidebar and fucking react emojis…
