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How the hell should I even switch mail providers? (lemmy.world)
submitted 5 months ago by Persen@lemmy.world to c/degoogle@lemmy.ml
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I have completely stopped using google services and software on my personal devices (even have lineageos + microg on my phone. The problem is that I can't just explain to the technically uneducated people that I changed mail providers. How should I go about doing this?

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[โ€“] 2xsaiko@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

No. You don't own that. Plus you need direct control over DNS records since you need to set up MX and TXT records and I think some other records as well.