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Except for the fact that you'll need to update your email address in so many places.
If you do move to a different provider, make sure you use your own domain. It's way more professional, and it lets you move to a different provider in the future without having to change your email address again. I've had one of my email addresses for a bit over 20 years across a bunch of different providers.
The paid version of Protonmail lets you have up to 3 custom domains. MXRoute and FastMail let you use your own domain too. MXRoute supports unlimited domains and addresses; you're just limited by total disk space.
If the email address is important to you, it's better to use a paid service since it'll usually give you proper support and an SLA.
Which is actually a good thing. Might sound scarry and counterintuitive at first, but is the right way to go.
Especially with a custom domain, (can be smth cheap for 2 bucks a year) and using aliases for all the different places... like onlyfans@mydomain com.. this prevents other malicious services from sending spam to your main email adress, since you can just delete the alias.
My point was more that if you do change email address, you should change to your own domain, since then you won't have to change it again in the future :)
Yeah this is great. I use a catchall email so anything @ my domain goes to me.
yeah.. me too... thankfully no one tried to bruteforce, at least not for now 😅
+1 for MXroute. I have unlimited domains with 25GB of storage for $30 every 3 years. So less than a dollar per month. Looks like they are still offering it. It's more than enough for email especially considering the Gmail account I used for 15 years was under 5GB.
I switched to them at the beginning of the year so about 9 months ago and have not had any issues.
MXroute are great. I switched to self-hosting my email server using Mailcow a few years ago, but still use MXroute for outbound email (meaning my SMTP server relays outbound email via MXroute). They've got deliverability figured out and have several fallbacks - I think if all of their outbound servers fail to send the email, they retry via Mailbaby and Mailchannels.
Agreed, if you can effort is, buy a domain and use it for email. I also have melroy at melroy dot o r g. However, I still redirect my mail, since I don't like paying for services haha. That being said, I'm planning to setup my own mail server (I finally now have the infrastructure at home and static IP, needed for this).
Anyhow, DNS also needs to be replaced by something better.
Forwarding is a decent approach too. Just note that it's not 100% reliable (due to limitations around spam filtering) and you will sometimes have emails that get dropped.
yeah I know.. It's not ideal. I don't recommend it.