Ask HN: What do you use instead of Gmail?

Re:Ask HN: What do you use instead of Gmail? by jvannistelrooy on Thursday March 01, 2018 @06:35AM (#16491198)

I've been trying out Protonmail which I'm happy with, but in practice I'm still using Gmail.

I'm reluctant to move away from my @gmail address, and inform all my contacts to use the new one. Besides that, I notice that orally communicating [anything]@gmail.com is much easier than any other domain. I wish I could take my gmail address to another service.

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Re:Ask HN: What do you use instead of Gmail? by mysterypie on Thursday March 01, 2018 @06:53AM (#16491267)

> orally communicating [anything]@gmail.com is much easier than any other domain

Sure, if you had the foresight to reserve [email protected] twelve years ago, but today you'll have to use [email protected]. Chances are that you won't even get [email protected].

However, chances are better for [email protected], [email protected], etc.

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Re:Ask HN: What do you use instead of Gmail? by jvannistelrooy on Thursday March 01, 2018 @07:46AM (#16491496)

That's indeed a good reason to pick another domain. I hope non-gmail domains will become more common because of that. It might lower the barrier to switch for many people.

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Re:Ask HN: What do you use instead of Gmail? by MrMember on Thursday March 01, 2018 @10:31AM (#16492722)

I managed to get [email protected] (account created in 2004ish) but for my Proton Mail account I had to add in my middle initial.

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Re:Ask HN: What do you use instead of Gmail? by eequah9L on Friday March 02, 2018 @08:10AM (#16501093)

Yep, that one was taken by the dude that couldn't use @gmail, because you already had it ;)

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Re:Ask HN: What do you use instead of Gmail? by amcooper on Thursday March 01, 2018 @07:34AM (#16491449)

I switched to Protonmail in November. I'm using the free version now, and it's fine.

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