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[–] JustARegularNerd@lemmy.world 6 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Proton Mail as others have suggested is the easy and privacy friendly solution, and probably set an auto forwarding rule from your gmail account to your new Proton Mail.

Otherwise I haven't self hosted my own email but from my previous attempts it seemed like it's quite involved

[–] Tangent5280@lemmy.world 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Protonmail does have a problem with often being classified as a temporary email provider. Some websites refuse to allow registrations using protonmail emails. Solution is to not use those websites.

[–] JustARegularNerd@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago

I'm yet to run into that myself (2+ year user of it) but I would believe that