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What's a good alternative to Gmail? (meganice.online)

submitted 2 years ago by i_am_hungry@meganice.online to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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Trying to de-google and looking for an alternative to Gmail.

Don't mind if it's a paid service if it's robust.

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[–] Kayel@aussie.zone 20 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Protonmail

It has all the bells and whistles, is privacy protecting, and is free to use

[–] LongPigFlavor@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 years ago

I've heard of Proton, but I never knew you could get the whole suite and that they had the option to subscribe for 24 months, that's pretty neat.

[–] atx_aquarian@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

I do like Proton, and I needed something like it for a forwarding problem with Gmail.

But it actually lacks one bell/whistle that Gmail offers. Both services work to receive mail for forwarding addresses, but, on Gmail, you can also send from your forwarded addresses. Proton will only send from a domain you own. So if you get mail forwarded from my.name@alumni.myuniversity.edu or treasurer@myclub.org, you won't be able to reply or send from those addresses on Proton. Judging by how long people have been asking for that ability, I doubt Proton intends to ever provide that.

[–] lemmyvore@feddit.nl 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

on Gmail, you can also send from your forwarded addresses

I imagine that only works if you also host the address you forward to with Google? Otherwise I can't see how Google can send email on behalf of a domain whose DNS servers it doesn't control. If that were possible spam would be a lot worse than it is.

[–] atx_aquarian@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

It only requires you to demonstrate you control the address.

https://support.google.com/mail/answer/22370?hl=en

Proton, on the other hand, only supports you owning the whole domain, as their only verification is through DNS TXT records.