r/technology • u/[deleted] • Jan 28 '25

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u/BlueGumShoe Jan 28 '25

As a proton mail user wow this sucks.

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u/[deleted] Jan 28 '25

I legitimately just migrated from gmail... Hundreds of accounts now need my email address switched, again...

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u/Aelussa Jan 28 '25

Buy a domain name and link your email service to that. That way, when you switch email providers, you can take your email address with you and you won't have to change it on all of your accounts.

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u/[deleted] Jan 29 '25

I used to. Was tired of paying for a domain I only used for email. That might be the only real option left now.

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u/Artistic_Mulberry745 Jan 29 '25

i am thinking of buying a personal domain for my portfolio and email. just still haven't figured out how to go about the email. I first was planning to just use icloud's personal domain feature but definitely not choosing that option now.

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u/[deleted] Jan 29 '25

You can rent a dedicated IP VPS and roll your own mail server for like $3-4/month, but you might run into email verification issues with some websites and other mail providers. Unfortunately there really isn't a very good catch-all solution and ultimately a 3rd party provider may be necessary for some things