Comment on Google is now letting users in the US change their Gmail address
homes@piefed.world 1 day ago
Had that email address for over 25 years. It’s the only one that has my actual name attached to it. It’s how very very very old friends and people I haven’t talked to since college still manage to reach out and get in contact with me. I don’t think I wanna change it. I have other, newer email addresses I use for contemporaneous stuff.
cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca 20 hours ago
This is why I bought a domain years ago. Change and alias and whatever I want whenever I want.
homes@piefed.world 20 hours ago
Oh, I had my own Web server for a couple of decades, and while that was useful, maintaining my own email server was a pain in the ass. Especially for junk mail filtering.
cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca 11 hours ago
I agree. I don’t host it myself though. I’m just Google’s product with that super grandfathered free version of workspace.
homes@piefed.world 11 hours ago
Oh, I’m sorry, I clearly misunderstood what you said.
badabim@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
You don’t need to run your own email server to use a custom domain, some email providers let you use your own domain.
leoj@piefed.zip 11 hours ago
Shout out to Purely Mail!