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I still use my .edu 15 years later and it still works. I just dont want to deal with the headache of managing a domain, paying for it, switching hosting providers, etc. The edu address has always worked fine.
My university uses outlook and I use Thunderbird to access it. I would look into that. If you are worried about it being gmail and the privacy implications, I would say privacy doesnt really exist in email anyways. Any email you receive probably bounced through either a gmail or exchange server on the way to you anyways.
When both sender and receiver uses encryption, it exists.
Absolutely. But sadly hardly anyone does.
2 things to make this easier:
No need to manage domain, hosting providers. Just get privacy-first mail provider (like Proton or something).
No need to big-bang it. Just start connecting new accounts to the new email instead of Googles. Then once in while change them for existing services (retail for example and government) one by one.
Then after 2 years or so you will notice a couple of old ones are from obsolete services or can be changed to finish it off.
Ya I mean I have a proton account as well. I was mainly just pointing out that privacy in email is kind of silly to be worrying about. Your bank if not encrypting the emails they send and its pretty much guaranteed they are relaying it through an exchange or gmail server. I appreciate what proton is doing but Google and Mircosoft are getting your data either way.
My strategy has been to just not use email for much of anything beyond what is required for my life to function. Which really isnt much.