Technology

59030 readers

3070 users here now

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.

Our Rules

Follow the lemmy.world rules.
Only tech related content.
Be excellent to each another!
Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
Politics threads may be removed.
No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
Only approved bots from the list below, to ask if your bot can be added please contact us.
Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed

Approved Bots

founded 1 year ago

MODERATORS

[email protected]

473

Google confirms Gmail is “here to stay” amid speculation over plans to scrap the email service (www.itpro.com)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

182 comments fedilink hide all child comments

Google confirms Gmail is “here to stay” amid speculation over plans to scrap the email service::Claims that Google plans to sunset Gmail were a hoax, so there's no need to panic

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Google almost killed Gmail for me - I'm on a deprecated google apps free family plan they tried to kill recently. It was going to cost over a hundred dollars a month to move everyone on my personal family domain to a professional plan to keep it, and at the last minute they retreated and kept it free.

But for me that was a warning shot I can't ignore. Way back I ran a Microsoft Exchange server for the family, before that postfix with squirrelmail. But I'm tired of all the tech support that came with it, so some kind of permanent, relatively spam free email option that we call rely on for decades would be welcome.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago (1 children)

ProtonMail has a family plan, and they promise to encrypt your emails.

PurelyMail is nice and super cheap, the only downside is that it's run by a single guy.

Zoho is like 10 dollars per year per user, even though it's geared towards companies and not families.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Proton is way too overpriced for older accounts with a lot of stuff accumulated and encryption is a gimmick unless you're only communicating with other Proton users. All companies encrypt email at rest.

I'm currently using and can definitely recommend purely mail. Obviously backup, but so far the service has been excellent. It's the only fairly priced service out there for personal hosting that supports custom domains.