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Notion Mail - Off the waitlist (lemm.ee)
submitted 3 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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well... that sucks!

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[–] [email protected] 40 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Well to be fair it does say this in the FAQ section on their product page:

Q: Which email provider(s) will Notion Mail be compatible with?

A: Notion Mail will integrate seamlessly with Google and Gmail accounts at initial launch.

I assume this is because they are using Google's APIs to access your email and just add some extra bells and whistles on top of that.

Makes it utterly worthless to me, though. I'm trying to slowly REMOVE Google and Gmail from my life, not get locked in on using it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

What would you recommend for this purpose? I currently use eM Client.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

I can't make any recommendations, as having a desktop or alternative email client isn't what concerns me - I just want a non-Google provider. I'm currently using Proton.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

How rough was the switch? I can't imagine changing all my accounts that use my Gmail address, but I'd like to move to something else.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I'm doing it slowly. Anything new I register with the new email, obviously. I moved over the most important things, and then everything else I switch at the point I come to use that site or service again.

I keep my gmail available in my browser on the laptop for this purpose, but have signed out from it on phone and removed the app from phone, so the friction encourages me to keep switching things over.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 3 days ago

Notion is a privacy nightmare as is. No way I‘d reroute my mails over their servers. At least Notion and Google are a perfect match.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Hotmail still exists?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

They forced us to change to outlook and then didnt just replace the name, it became a subfolder under outlook. Microsoft sucks

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Notion mail? Wasn't that Skiff mail previously?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

That’s funny, went from a pro privacy email host to Notion which likes to collect data from you 😵

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I'm going to guess they don't integrate with Yahoo or AOL either.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 days ago

MySpace mail when?