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>>benhur+(OP)
This makes me anxious about my long time Gmail address. Back then I got it just because it and Google was cool, and their services had a good reputation. It was a different Google back then. If they had launched it this year I would never have got one because chances are it would have been cancelled by 2025. Gmail is really the only valuable thing that actually ties my life to Google. And it's not that hard to replace, but just a bother to inform some people and update account details.

>>jug+36
I've been considering getting a new email address on a personal domain so it can be more portable and I can change providers.

Does anyone recommend any alternate providers with custom domains, or some OSS? Is it possible to host your own email server on a NAS or RPi something?

>>warent+e6
I've self-hosted with a hand-rolled postfix+dovecot, and later with Mailcow's dockerised mailserver (FOSS, good management and webmail UI, strongly recommend).

More recently though I moved my personal domain to Microsoft Exchange Online - it's a lot less flexible than Mailcow (per-head licensing, but there's + addressing and catch-alls now) but I don't have any of the deliverability/gmail-spam-folder issues I used to have.

Exchange P1 Online [2] is roughly the same for my single-user as my old DO droplet cost per month

(edit: side-bonus you get an Azure AD tenant for your domain which is handy for SSO/IdP things)

[1]: https://mailcow.email/

[2]: https://www.microsoft.com/en-au/microsoft-365/exchange/compa...