Why I left Google (HN search results)

Re:Why I left Google (HN search results) by xienze on Thursday January 25, 2018 @11:46AM (#16232205)

I think a lot of people imagine leaving GMail as being very difficult but in my experience, not really. Get Fastmail and set it up with a custom domain. Not free, but suuuper cheap. Then go through all your accounts and update your email address. Forward GMail to your new email for a while. Done.

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Re:Why I left Google (HN search results) by antimatter on Thursday January 25, 2018 @11:58AM (#16232342)

I did exactly this 2 years ago and it was just as painless as you described. Took a few months of slowly migrating various accounts to new email via forwarding. I’m just annoyed at myself for not having done it sooner.

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Re:Why I left Google (HN search results) by scrollaway on Thursday January 25, 2018 @11:54AM (#16232290)

You're just glancing over the part where someone has years of archived, labeled, tagged emails in a convenient searchable UI. Importing that isn't straightforward for a techie, let alone a non-techie.

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Re:Why I left Google (HN search results) by xienze on Thursday January 25, 2018 @11:57AM (#16232334)

Yes I did, sorry. Fastmail does have a GMail import (and tags become folders). The UI is different, yes.

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