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/
I can relate, my first move from Gmail when I didn’t have domains hurt. At least I got the option to clear out hundreds of random services I signed up to as a kid but the ones I wanted to move were truly a bother.
Yeah I’d say so. Moving from Bitwarden is a great addition :)
Yep. For example I’ve got my own personal domain for email and my personal site. I also run a Rauthy instance for OICD for my hosted services which sends you an email to sign up after being invited, instead of using my personal domain which Rauthy isn’t on I can add the domain to Purelymail and now the emails can come from [email protected]. It’s a small thing but it looks nice.
+1 for desec, I use them alongside Porkbun as my registrar. Great service, great UI and they’re working on keepass support for login. They also do ephemeral login sessions by default which rocks.
I’m going specifically after Proton because of the fact that their PGP encryption doesn’t provide any additional value that users lack, even when using Gmail you can send your mails with the same PGP encryption. All while Proton markets itself as FOSS without any plans to open source their backend. All while with their services removes one of the only good things about email which is the ability to use your own client, which paradoxically would usually allow you to automatically encrypt and decrypt PGP mails. That combined with the CEO spazzing out in 2025 over Trump was horrible enough and now with the AI news he’s just showing privacy is nothing but a marketing term for him. Doesn’t help that Proton has telemetry.
Rendering images server side is good but honestly using email with rendering enabled is just a horrible for privacy either way.
Would be awesome honestly if we could replace email with Matrix, all the same freedoms (and more as IP reputation isn’t a thing on Matrix) without the privacy issues of email. Or I wish my state which has done some effort to digitalize would provide doctors and hospitals with an appointment system since right now you are reliant on email as you said or even worse telecom companies for mobile.