cleaning out my gmail box
i will hold on to the google account to prevent impersonation, but please don't use it anymore, if you really need to mail me use my protonmail address (i strongly prefer other contact methods though like IRC+OTR or on here)
@orionwl I always recommend getting your own domain. Preferably self hosting.
@pete i considered self-hosting email but it's too much setup work nowadays
i don't use mail much enough for that to be worth it
and the thing is, i already host quite a lot of communication infrastructure (mastodon, matrix, etc)
if it would be realistically possible to live without mail address i'd probably cancel it completely 🙂 but for now i'm happy with protonmail
@orionwl At least use a custom domain to make it easy to switch in the future: https://protonmail.com/support/knowledge-base/custom-domain-support/
That's just a few minutes of work to setup.
@pete heh i have that setup, it's not something i advertise but you can actually mail me on the mastodon address and it ends up in the protonmail box 😀
@orionwl Good! If you didn't, I'd have to point out that in addition to fine arts grads, I even know some fine arts dropouts that managed to figure out how to use their own domain for email. 😂
@orionwl @pete easy, forward them in a way that matches a rule in your target inbox that tags all forwarded messages as such. e.g. "old_gmail".
idk if proton lets you do this but it works well when migrating between gmail accounts.
btw, caveat, expect to get some bounceback noise from bots that keep sending you spam to the old address (gmail's vacation responder will try to auto-reply to them and then forward the bounce back to you 😁)
still worth it imo
@pete @orionwl and in such cases what I've done is also add a "vacation auto response" in gmail that notifies people that the address, while being forwarded, is not the preferred means of reaching out.