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by anal_reactor 593 days ago
At some point people were laughing at me because I'm using Yahoo as my main email address, but honestly, I'd rather have two "super important" accounts (Yahoo mail and Android gmail) rather than just one that gets me banned from everything in case AI decides it wants to fuck up my day.

I'm wondering what can I realistically do to protect myself from Yahoo screwing me over. Not gonna lie, setting up my own email domain sounds like a chore. Entry number 9274 on the list of things that will just take one evening and marginally improve my life.

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Register a domain and throw some $ at migadu and it's pretty straight forward. Super cheap too if you don't really send or receive a ton of email traffic. (Ie. Their micro plan)
given their email limits i feel that they are a bit expensive. there are plenty of services for $3-5 per month that have better limits (except the unlimited addresses and domains, that's really good, if you need it). and if i look at their micro plan, 200 incoming mails per day is not enough for me alone given all the mailing lists that i am on, as is a limit of 20 out. that's hardly practical.

a cheaper alternative is purelymail. their advanced pricing charges you per email and for used storage, but 1000/100 emails per day will only cost you $35 a year depending on the sizes of the emails you receive.