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by dbpatterson 4594 days ago
Errm. How do you get everyone to start using a different email address in 3 minutes?

This has been their brilliant (and awful - I don't use gmail, and _hate_ this) move - to get people to use an address@gmail.com, so there is no way you can ever take it anywhere else (because even if you want to forward, you have to keep the account active).
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JSZZHlmumeUE 4594 days ago
The three minutes was for how long it takes to setup Thunderbird to backup your Gmail.

I'm very happy with Gmail and it's way better than all the other e-mail services that various entities force me to use, but the point I was making is that I could move out of Gmail with all my data if I wanted to.

> so there is no way you can ever take it anywhere else

The standard solution is to setup a google apps on your domain.

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