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Re:Chrome Enterprise by rb666 on Wednesday August 23, 2017 @12:11AM (#15078475)
1. Get your own domain and email address 2. Use mailgun to forward to gmail 3. Set Gmail from to your new mail 4. Slowly start changing your login/email everywhere you use Gmail 5. Make a proper backup of all your Gmail mail

In time, you will no longer depend on Gmail for the rest of your life and can just switch to, for example Fastmail, any time.

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Re:Chrome Enterprise by enitihas on Wednesday August 23, 2017 @04:06AM (#15079513)
Doesn't Fastmail has similar terms of service, i.e, that they can terminate your account any time for any reason whatsoever. Source : https://www.fastmail.com/about/tos.html

This is the biggest reason I am hesitant to try fastmail.

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Re:Chrome Enterprise by osel on Wednesday August 23, 2017 @04:25AM (#15079610)
Fast mail are generally good at support, so unlike google you're not dealing with a black hole when something needs to be fixed.
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Re:Chrome Enterprise by enriquto on Wednesday August 23, 2017 @11:26AM (#15082239)
Yes, but their terms of service are absolutely preposterous (unjustified and unannounced termination at anytime).

Most mail providers can terminate users for any reason, but at least with a few days of notice, allowing you to move the data elsewhere.

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Re:Chrome Enterprise by lloeki on Wednesday August 23, 2017 @07:03AM (#15080376)
This is why step 1. is important, along with step 6. have an automated backup of your mail, whatever the provider.
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Re:Chrome Enterprise by rocqua on Wednesday August 23, 2017 @05:28AM (#15079884)
I'd like to do this, but 2 things are keeping me with gmail. The first is their spam filter. I find it works pretty damn well. I don't think a self-hosted solution would beat it.

But for me, the really killer solution is their 'important mail' filter. I'd love to find an alternative to gmail with a similarly well-functioning system.

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Re:Chrome Enterprise by lloeki on Wednesday August 23, 2017 @07:12AM (#15080415)
"Important mail" just never worked correctly for me :/

Fastmail's spam filter is good† and customisable[0] (with niceties like score displayed right there[1]), to the extent that I just forward things from Gmail by wildcard-disabling the Gmail spam filter[2].

† the learning filter won't kick in until you make it learn 200 messages.

[0]: https://s3.postimg.org/v42zaper7/Screen_Shot_2017-08-23_at_1...

[1]: https://s3.postimg.org/ryidkhw4z/Screen_Shot_2017-08-23_at_1...

[2]: https://s3.postimg.org/lyumgubcj/Screen_Shot_2017-08-23_at_1...

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Re:Chrome Enterprise by phlo on Wednesday August 23, 2017 @07:19AM (#15080461)
You can add your own domain to Gmail if you use G Suite, the SME offering. It's $50/user/year, but in exchange, you get to turn off ads, and I think there's some support included.

Google can still terminate your account without notice, but if you're using your own domain, you'd at least be free to move to another service immediately.

Oh, and don't forget to get regular backups, so you don't have to start at zero in the case of an account termination.

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