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Leaving Gmail for Mailbox.org

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351 points giuliomagnifico | 3 comments | 22 Aug 25 17:41 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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rendleflag ◴[22 Aug 25 22:09 UTC] No.44990465[source]▶
I’ve been a Fastmail user for years, having left Gmail. It works great and have nothing be but praise for them. I use my own domain with them so if I decide to leave it’s not an issue worrying about updating people with my new email.
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onlyhumans ◴[22 Aug 25 22:20 UTC] No.44990569[source]▶
Fastmail is kind of a weird service. If you stop paying they release your email for someone else to take over. Pretty unacceptable this day and age.
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1. kelnos ◴[22 Aug 25 23:30 UTC] No.44991228[source]▶
I really wish all mail providers made it easy and seamless to bring your own domain (or register and manage one in the background for you, without you having to care for the details). Obviously giving a service-tied email domain to users is a great lock-in strategy. But it's worrying that so many people have a big part of their online identity tied to Google.

(You can even sign up for a Google Account without GMail, using a third-party domain. And this is distinct from Google Workspace, or whatever they're calling it today. You get a normal, regular, personal Google Account, just without GMail and using your own non-gmail.com address.)

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2. litmus-pit-git ◴[23 Aug 25 03:10 UTC] No.44992759[source]▶
Yes, I use Google (that's rare; when I 'must' must) with a icloud.com temp hidemyemail address created Google a/c.
3. qingcharles ◴[23 Aug 25 04:37 UTC] No.44993202[source]▶
Fastmail makes it super easy to bring your own domains. As many as you want even on their cheapest plan.