[xte]

Me to, personally I drop GMail for a personal mail (20 euros per years, with a bunch of mailbox + unlimited aliases altogether with a personal domain. Benefit: alias to tell anyone a different mail so I know where the spam came from and I can easy drop anyone I dislike. Lightweight webmail (Roundcube) instead of monsters like actual GMail, login with user and password visible at the same time without the absurdity of Google that demand user-enter-password-enter cycle. A STANDARD IMAP so I can properly delete my mails from my local maildir without the need of moving to trash, sync back, delete from trash and sync back again.

For search IMVHO there is no point in switching between Google search and other equivalent search engine, simply because DDG, QWant etc are still company offering something from their own server. So I try to switch to YaCy (FOSS distributed search engine, a bit a java monster but not as monstrous as many Java crap we all know. I still use few time a day Google search mostly because it work far better...

On Keep I switch to Orgzly on mobile and sync my notes or to be more precise the sole parts of them I want on mobile, via org-mode+rsync. On Android sync without cloud is a pity due to limited fs access, however Termux work wall enough...

I have no need of Drive and I use personal calendar (via CardDav/Radicale) and contacts so I'm less bound.

However I'm still on Android seeing no real alternatives, SailFish was a substantial fail, Purism phone it's not there, OpenMoko, GreenPhone, ... are all old dead projects...

[sigi45]

Roundcube is everything but not a replacement for Gmail.

I have my Gmail account logged in on 3 PC's going back to IMAP and Thunderbird never.

[xte]

Well I say something similar in the past, now have seen the GMail evolution path I change my mind, beside that I do not generally use webmails except when I'm with a machine without my environment, my main MUA is notmuch-emacs.

I also agree about TB, classic MUA seems to be remained in the 90's however at leas for us not-basic-users notmuch-emacs, mutt&forks, pine&forks, mu4e etc are valuable options, long to setup-up, mostly because anyone have a personal recipe and no one offer a ready-to-use solution, but far more powerful than any webmails.

However mailpie can be consider a good GMail-inspired webmails and IMVHO for most of mail users Roundcube even if is really basic it's enough, clear, simple and effective. Contacs are a bit limited compared to Google's one but the rest work well.

[lgl]

While I agree that roundcube is really basic when compared with Gmail, I'd say that if you follow the convention that Gmail is nothing more than a webmail client (i.e.: a place you access through a browser to receive, read and send emails) then roundcube is exactly that. No bells or whistles though.

[PeterisP]

Gmail isn't just a webmail client - filtering out spam is a major part of any mail service; a mail server that doesn't reliably throw out the appropriate 80% of my incoming email messages simply is not usable.

I could run a mail server myself, but I don't believe that I can achieve comparable levels of spam filtering without excessive effort, so I would need someone else to provide this service.