alt Hacker News> Changing email providers sounds daunting, but it ... Probably took a few hours at most.
That does indeed sound as daunting as I feared, unfortunately.
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denkmoon • yesterday at 9:50 PM
A few hours pf effort to liberate your email from Google. Well worth imo.
jambalaya8 • today at 1:43 AM
can always buy a domain with pop3 enabled mail like the old days. pretty cheap.
> That does indeed sound as daunting as I feared, unfortunately.
You don't have to do it all in one go. It isn't like you have to move everything all at once like you're moving to a new apartment.
I started moving away from gmail years ago. It took probably like 5-10 minutes to set up email under my own DNS control and to set a forwarding address on gmail that pointed to that email.
I didn't even bother to do an initial bulk move of things over to the new email, I just switched things over individually as needed in a sort of on-demand fashion. 30-60 seconds here and there moving over individual accounts one at a time and only when it became obvious that I was moving over something worth keeping up on.
Spread out like that it felt like almost no effort at all.