A collection of issues and my critiques with Proton.

I’ve had this drafted for a while but the recent news got me fumed and I locked in to finish and post it.

  • NarrativeBear@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    Are there any guides you follow so I can get a better idea how or what I should be aware of when moving from gmail go mailbox or something similar.

    I have a few domain names, but wonder how I would use those names with mailbox for example, and what was your process for moving all emails from gmail to your new mail provider?

    Dos you start by mostly forwarding everything and then slowly switching email accounts on all your online services? Or is there something I am missing?

    • CharmingPixel96@lemmy.ml
      2·
      15 hours ago

      Obviously there are different approaches. OP responded they skipped forwarding; I did exactly what you said which was forward my Gmail to Proton so I didn’t have to sign in to Gmail anymore, and then slowly unsubscribe or delete accounts, or migrate the email to an alias for things I wanted to keep.

    • nicolovomilion@lemmy.mlOP
      3·
      21 hours ago

      My first move was from Gmail without a domain so I had to manually move everything, personally I skipped the forwarding step and just spent a while moving everything. Currently I’m using my own domain so moving is just a matter of following the provider-given steps and switching out my email related DNS records which takes a few minutes at most.

      Btw mailbox has a guide page for using your own domain: https://kb.mailbox.org/en/private/custom-domains/using-emails-with-a-custom-domain/