What can I expect migrating my gmail setup to proton mail? (lemmy.today)

submitted 1 week ago by Paradachshund@lemmy.today to c/opensource@lemmy.ml

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I've seen a lot of people on Lemmy singing the praises of proton mail and I've been considering making the switch. I was hoping those of you who use it might be able to give me a sense of the difficulty (or ease) of migrating my current setup to it.

Please keep things simple if you can. I'm not a very tech savvy person and don't understand a lot of the lingo and shorthand about this stuff.

Right now I have a single gmail inbox where I am forwarding several different accounts to it, some from gmail, others from different hosts. I really like this centralized setup, and I have it configured so I can also reply from any of these forwarded email addresses as well (it also automatically replies from whichever email the sender sent to).

Would any of this be hard or impossible to replicate in proton mail? My goal would be to slowly move away from gmail, but it will be a slow transition and I would need my current email addresses to forward to the new inbox as I do so.

Thanks for any insight.

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[-] nokturne213@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 week ago

Would any of this be hard or impossible to replicate in proton mail?

AFAIK you can keep using the forwards to Proton, but in the free version you are unable to reply from them. I have unlimited and I have several addresses set up this way but I am unsure of the limit.

[-] baronvonj@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

It's not a free vs paid feature. You simply cannot send or reply with a non-profit domain that you don't own. This feature has already been requested several times on the uservoice site

and on the Reddit forum

[-] Paradachshund@lemmy.today 1 points 1 week ago

Can you clarify what you mean by a nonprofit domain? The places I would need to forward right now are a few gmail addresses, a domain I own, and a couple zoho addresses (though those also use a custom domain, not sure if that changes things).

[-] baronvonj@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

auto-correct typo. Meant to say non-proton domain (like protonmail.com, proton.me, etc). You can forward the @gmail.com addresses to your Proton mailbox, but there is no way for your to send as those gmail.com addresses from your Proton mailbox in the same way you can send as non gmail.com addresses from your gmail mailbox. You can send as an address from a domain that you own and configure all the DNS records for Proton to handle.