[ad404b8a372f2b9]

Every new feature from Google is a middle finger to their users, then you get some corporate double speak about how it's all well and good and how it makes the product better.

Get a Fastmail account, I got one after I got tired of google breaking my IMAP settings every other week. They're cheap, they have most everything you'd need from an email provider, and they don't require a special app like proton.

[vort3]

I think if I'm gonna pay for using email, I'll just try to get any cheap VPS/domain and try to run my own email. It'll be more expensive for sure, but at least it will be my own thing I'm paying for.

[jjulius]

Just depends whether or not the effort it takes to find a VPS company whose IPs aren't blocked by major email providers, and then ensuring that your emails continuously make it through to their destinations, is worth the cost savings.

I share your sentiment, but I opted for Fastmail because the effort wasn't worth the savings. YMMV, obviously.

[leereeves]

The problem with running your own email is getting past the spam filters.

The big email providers have basically built a walled garden around email by blocking anyone outside the garden as spam. They have no incentive to open the system to people who run their own email.

[kevin_thibedeau]

Fastmail service with a custom domain includes 10GB storage and zero hassles.

[snihalani]

I tried fastmail and then there was no search on the drive aspect. had to move back to google

[throw10920]

Fastmail is great at email. If you want a G Suite experience, then you'll need...well, Google.

[travisporter]

I'm able to search for filenames in fastmail files. I guess you refer to searching file contents?

[kevin_thibedeau]

You can mount the files via WebDAV then grep away or point an indexing tool at that as desired.