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If you have Gmail click this link, it is an eye opener: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;myaccount.google.com&#x2F;purchases" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;myaccount.google.com&#x2F;purchases</a><p>Google knows every online purchase you ever made, every line item, the price you paid, the address it was delivered to, and so on.<p>Keep in mind that Facebook and Google also combine this data with offline data about you purchased from other companies, to complete the picture.<p>UPDATE: Here&#x27;s an example of Google purchasing data about your offline purchases: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.fastcompany.com&#x2F;90230910&#x2F;google-has-been-secretly-tracking-your-offline-purchases-with-help-from-mastercard" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.fastcompany.com&#x2F;90230910&#x2F;google-has-been-secretl...</a>

&gt; In exchange for free mails, would you let your postman open your letters, read them, and insert ads related to their contents?<p>Note that this is not the case anymore: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;2017&#x2F;06&#x2F;23&#x2F;technology&#x2F;gmail-ads.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;2017&#x2F;06&#x2F;23&#x2F;technology&#x2F;gmail-ads.html</a><p>We never did that for G Suite, but with this announcement we also stopped doing it for consumer.<p>Disclaimer: Googler working on Gmail. Please stay :-)

&gt; First, I strongly suggest you buy a domain name, so that you really own your mail address<p>Any opinions on that?<p>I did so years ago (mostly for the reason of being independent of a mail provider) but meanwhile I realized you never &quot;own&quot; a domain. It&#x27;s always just rented. It would be bad if someone gets in control of my domain so I just hope this won&#x27;t happen before I&#x27;m dead... And even then it could be bad if it happens (although not for me anymore).

I have no complaints with Fastmail, great experience.<p>Android mail clients however - I really wish K-9 Mail felt more modern, it&#x27;s perfectly usable but the ancient UI makes it less nice to use.

I wonder why nobody mentioned zoho.com (from India) and products they offer. They have docs as well as other apps that any business needs and no privacy issues.

Why doesn&#x27;t anyone every mention actually paying google and using GSuite, instead of using their free service?

If anyone&#x27;s gone through this trouble already, care to explain how you did it? I&#x27;ve been thinking about rolling a VPS with postfix&#x2F;dovecot, but it seems like such a hassle to maintain, and I&#x27;m not super confident in my ability to secure it.

Any recommendation on an iOS mail app. I use the Apple one, which is fine if uninteresting. The Fastmail app is not very modern looking which I superficially care about. Any reasonable looking non-Apple mail app reads my email or collects my data.

I&#x27;ve been on this un-Googlify trend for almost a decade now, as a beta Gmail user I ran into the &quot;wow, I&#x27;m really neck deep in Google telemetry&quot; wake up some time ago.<p>The only stuff that I can&#x27;t let go of is Maps as the author noted, and Youtube. I&#x27;ll always use the best services and I like both.<p>Outlook.com solves a lot of the problems the author detailed with calendar items and contacts, as well as provides the storage necessary to host your email archive.<p>I&#x27;m willing to be datamined, but not by one monolith like Google for every service. That&#x27;s really the problem and what people feel uncomfortable with.

This article looks like an ad for fastmail.com

Does anyone know if you can disable email on GSuite (i.e. change MX on my domain to Fastmail), but keep the rest? I use my GSuite account login on a lot of sites, I&#x27;ve got shared photo albums etc.

Not using Fastmail, but I&#x27;m working on this now. Bye, Google.

The example mbox sender frequency script is measuring the mbone list at isi. I was on that list back in the nineties.<p>Here&#x27;s a video from one of the top posters.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;vimeo.com&#x2F;56349011" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;vimeo.com&#x2F;56349011</a>

Which other emailer has threads, snooze, and tabs? (need all of those really; hard to move without them) I do hate that I can&#x27;t just pay for gmail and avoid the crappy ads...

Has anyone found anything which competes with Google Calendar?

Moved from gmail to a VPS with dovecot, postfix and SOGo (provides xDAV, webui and activesync). Never looked back.

The feature that makes it so hard for me to leave Gmail is the automatic bundling of promotions, updates, social, forums. That has made managing my inbox actually manageable. Is that any way to get a feature with another email provider?

I did this 3 years ago and have not regretted the choice.

I went with Namecheap as my Gmail replacement. I can use my own domain and setup was instant. The interface and admin panel are very clean which is nice, but $10&#x2F;mo for one inbox doesn&#x27;t really say &quot;cheap&quot; to me. Overall I am quite happy, though.