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Best way to keep a gmail based non-gmail email address (lemmy.world)
submitted 2 days ago by LordOfLocksley@lemmy.world to c/degoogle@lemmy.ml
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When I graduated university, they gave me, and others, graduate email addresses with the domain @institution.edu. The catch is, it's entirely based within Gmail, despite having a unique domain. I want to keep using this address, as it's tied heavily to my professional career, but I'm not sure how to decouple it from gmail ecosystem. Would using a client such as emClient be sufficient in breaking Google's monopoly?

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[โ€“] joeldebruijn@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

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.

[โ€“] superglue@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 day ago

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.