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How to migrate from GMail (lemmy.world)
submitted 5 days ago by LordOfLocksley@lemmy.world to c/degoogle@lemmy.ml
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I've had my GMail account for what must be almost 20 years now, and it's pretty ingrained in my life. My mortgage info comes via GMail, my bank statements come via GMail, my health insurance comes via GMail, etc.

Thinking about migrating honestly seems like an insurmountable task. I have no idea where to begin. How the hell do I go about untangling GMail services from my life.

I've potentially been looking to move to Proton for email, but any other suggestions (preferably European based) would be welcome.

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[–] solrize@lemmy.ml 5 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Use your own domain for heavens sake, so you're not stuck with a new corporation instead of google. It's ok if you have the email for your domain hosted at an email provider since you can always move it or self-host it without your address changing.

For EU email hosting, migadu.com is still around and seems ok (I played with it a little, years ago). They start at 19 USD/year now it looks like. I'm on fastmail.com (Australian) which costs more but I've been happy there so whatever.

[–] aeternum@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

Eh, fastmail is no bueno anymore. The Australian government passed a law called the Access and Assistance bill, which would require any company to put a backdoor in their software should the government ask.

[–] solrize@lemmy.ml 2 points 4 days ago

Yeah they posted something about it, https://www.fastmail.com/blog/access-and-assistance-bill/

I think that was before the bill passed. It seems to mean the AU govt can issue warrants for customer data but not outright install stuff on the servers. You're right that it's something to consider. OTOH email is inherently not very private, because the other person is probably using gmail.