Grow Your Own Services 🌱Mar 23, 2024

The easiest way to have control of your email is probably to buy a domain name (such as example.com) and then use this on an account from an independent email provider.

If you're ever unhappy with a provider, you can switch to a different one without changing your email address because the domain still belongs to you.

There are lots of independent email providers, all of them let you use your own domain. For example @Tutanota, @fastmail and @protonmail are very popular.

#GrowYourOwn

Show threadJonathan YuMar 23, 2024
@homegrown If you switch, what happens to your old emails? I suppose people can archive everything locally over IMAP or POP3, but even for people who have the technical capability to do so, it often seems like a lot of hassle
Show threadadamrice

@jawnsy @homegrown I recently moved my mail hosting (under my vanity domain) from Google Workspace to Fastmail. Fastmail has an importer that’s basically fire-and-forget.

If you move to a service that doesn’t have an importer, doing it by hand would be tedious but possible.

Mar 23, 2024 at 8:57pmWeb