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Leaving Gmail for Mailbox.org

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351 points giuliomagnifico | 1 comments | 22 Aug 25 17:41 UTC | HN request time: 0.24s | 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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akoboldfrying ◴[23 Aug 25 01:04 UTC] No.44991935[source]▶
Domain names work the same way -- once you stop paying for it, someone else can buy and use it.

Do you have the same problem with domain names? If so, how would you propose to fix it?

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soraminazuki ◴[23 Aug 25 01:21 UTC] No.44992054[source]▶
That's incredibly dishonest reasoning. Are you seriously telling me that unless people have a solution for fixing DNS, commercial email should be free to hand out used email addresses? Seriously?
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1. opello ◴[23 Aug 25 01:39 UTC] No.44992170[source]▶
Isn't it more like fixing whois than fixing DNS? It's the name registration part while "fixing DNS" seems like it carries a lot of additional baggage that doesn't map to the "service username" space.