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What do you do if you want to change email provider or your email provider decides to stop their email service.

I think a lot of people have been spoiled by gmail's longevity. Unless you're using your own domain it's a wash anyways right?

I think this is an acceptable trust. I personally prefer trusting something with more longevity than fastmail (apple hide my email).



> I think a lot of people have been spoiled by gmail's longevity.

> I personally prefer trusting something with more longevity than fastmail

Fastmail launched 5 years before Gmail, in 1999. It's also a paid product with a sustainable business model. It's hard to get more longevity than that.


> I think a lot of people have been spoiled by gmail's longevity.

> I personally prefer trusting something with more longevity than fastmail (apple hide my email).

Fastmail (launched 1999) is older than Gmail (launched 2004).


Buy a super cheap domain that you park all of these new email addresses at, like 7467j.com. Then, if you ever need to switch providers, take the entire domain with you.


I have my own domain




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