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by yumraj 1273 days ago
Even if that happens, it’s not a problem.

Why?

You go to your register and point your domain to another email provider, and you’re back in business.

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Not a problem?

All your previous emails are lost, aren't they? Even you have local backup of them somehow, they are not equivalent to emails saved to your server?

Losing backups is problematic, but IMO the bigger issue is losing access. I care 10x more about emails that I haven't received yet, compared to my history. I am still not wanting to lose that history... but it is just not as big a deal.
The only way to cover that case is run your own mail server.

I've done that in the past, don't recommend it unless you have a real need and know what you're doing. It wasn't hard, but just extra work that I wasn't sure was worth it.

If you're using an email client, chances are you have an offline copy of your emails (depending on how you configured it)
If you have a local back up and the provider supports IMAP, you can just sync it back to the new provider.