Odd not a single mention of hotmail in there the original web based email service which arguably was the one of the prime options till gmail offered way more storage.
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Don't forget Netscape mail.
But hotmail / outlook.com still exists.. Does netscape mail?
When I left college, my university closed my email account. That sucked, but I moved on. Then the paid service I used closed down, so I had to change again. That sucked. I lost access to my Xbox Live account because they send all my "update password" emails to that old address and won't update to my new address without confirming the change on an email that no longer exists.
Now I've had the same email address for 17 years and really really don't want to move on, even though I hate that it is with Google. They went from "don't be evil" to "be as evil as possible."
And that is why I pay for my own domain. The service can change, but my domain is eternal (or near enough for my purposes)
I'm regretting not doing that 20 years ago.
I did the conversation a few years ago.
Yes it took me a full year probably of updating accounts. But it's doable if you do it in small chunks at s time. I set up a forwarding to my new domain and when I felt like it updated a few more accounts. Untill one day, nothing showed up anymore.
Worth it
Actually deleted my Gmail account I think
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I joined gmail in beta so similarly had had my address for an absurd amount of years.
Last year I completely switched over to proton for everything and keep my gmail as a junk account for shit I want to sign up for but don't want to dirty my main with.
It was a daunting feeling undertaking at first but honestly it took me a couple of hours to go through and change the email on things I actually use and want to keep.
It was a nice freeing feeling and really helped me weed out what accounts I truly use and want to keep. I would highly recommend it as a cleansing exercise as much as anything else!
Could you share some more thoughts on your experience with Proton over the last year after switching from Gmail?
I don't know if I am the best person to ask as I am not really a "power user" or anything. It sends and receives emails and isnt google which is all I really need, I can't really talk about any features it may or may not have that people might look for.
I like that I can make up to 10 different address from within that same account, send emails from any of those accounts from just a drop down box without logging in and out of different accounts.
I like that they give me credit to my account based in how much space I actually use in my inbox.
I recently upgraded to an "ultimate" type account which covers all their products for me and my gf to try and encourage her to move away from google. The way the drive works is a bit counter intuitive in my opinion and the password manager thing seems to work well across both windows and android but I've never used a password manager programme before so it could be dogshit in comparison to others, but it seems to work well for me.
Never tried the VPN as I pay for AirVPN.
Sorry, not very insightful for you in terms or details but I like it a lot and it all works well for me, I've never had issues with any of the apps or logging in and accessing my stuff. The primary thing for me was moving away from google.
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That is a good point. I have moved to Proton mail but I keep my Gmail account as a backup and it's part of my still used Google account. Can't see myself ever shutting it down completely just in case, as much as I avoid Google as much as possible now.
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Ctrl+F: "thread" "conversation" zero results
I feel like people have forgotten how email worked before, when webmail providers were emulating the desktop client model of "received messages go in Inbox, Sent folder is for sent." Gmail's conversation view was shockingly intuitive, one of those "why hasn't it always been this way?" things that feels so obvious in retrospect.
I read some sysadmin forums about Conversation View, and most of them say users regularly ask how to turn it off. I always turn it off immediately.
I turned that off so many years ago I forgot it exists.
Yeah, abjectly hate conversation view.
I have always used conversation view in my desktop email client. Not sure why you think this is revolutionary or exclusive to gmail.
It was a novel new feature they introduced decades ago. Email was far less organized before then.
Labels were a pretty simple yet novel concept for categorizing mail which i seldom see in any other provider, sadly.
Fastmail has them, they’re better than gmails and they import cleanly once you migrate away from gmail.
Incidentally the same labels make Gmail fundamentally incompatible with the way IMAP works causing lots of weirdness whenever you use any standard email client not specifically designed for Gmail.
My free Bluebottle account had tags, which are basically labels, but that was like 100 years ago.
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Eudora! I had forgotten all about that one.
Isn't the linked article just a puff piece that says nothing substantial at all?
I’m still using gmail, but reading it trough the same old school local clients downloading everything trough imap. For everything important i have tutanota and private servers. Proton indeed looks like honeypot to me.
Proton indeed looks like honeypot to me.
What makes you think that?
Genuinely asking, since I literally signed up for their paid email service earlier in the week.