Stop Google Mail

3rd post of my Stop Google serie, this one is about GMail.

What is it?

GMail is an email service like many others, allowing to create an email address, sending emails through SMTP and retrieving emails through IMAP. GMail also provides a proprietary sending/receiving protocol and a web-interface to read and send emails. Like other email providers, it's mostly based on standard protocols.

I really don't like GMail, for many reasons:

Alternatives

This is not a service specific to Google. You can get a mailbox in a lot of places. The easiest thing is to take an email address to a less used company, diversity!

Lots of registrar also do email services, so you can get your own domain name and have personalized email adresses.

And of course you can host your emails yourself on your own server. I explained a long time ago how to install your own mail server in previous posts. There's a very good tutorial (and much more recent than mine) on linuxfr on how to host your emails (in French).

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