I Moved My Gmail to Proton. It Was Surprisingly Easy(washingtonpost.com)
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I Moved My Gmail to Proton. It Was Surprisingly Easy
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/06/27/gmail-switch-proton-email/
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Moving the actual messages is not the hard part, you could always just download them. Figuring out who all has your old email address and trying to update it everywhere is the hard part.
Most countries with >1 telco needed to mandate phone number portability, because the telcos would not do it voluntarily. I can't see it being fixed for email though. The sanest ways would be to provide a domain per citizen (essentially operating as a registrar) or a centralized email forwarding service, and I don't see any government putting in that sort of effort for a problem most people don't realize they have.
iki.fi does that. It's excellent.
This highlights the absurdity of using email addresses as immutable user IDs
I just set a autoforwarder in gmail for the time being, and then updated the important services as they came through.
That’s part of what makes it convenient to own a domain and handle your email through that.
The first time I went through this exercise I decided to put the email address I'm using for each service in my password manager.
If I ever need to do it again, at least I know who has what.
If I ever need to do it again, at least I know who has what.
I moved my Gmail to Fastmail, it was surprisingly easy (and fast considering I had over 5gb in 20,000 emails).
And here’s how you can too: https://proton.me/support/switch-from-gmail-to-proton
What's more frustrating is the inverse. :)
That said, Proton has improved their product quite a bit over the years. I'm less sold on client-side-encryption-as-a-product these days but I would honestly wager their new email client is one of the better frontends I've used in the past 5 years. Makes me not bother migrating elsewhere at this point.
That said, Proton has improved their product quite a bit over the years. I'm less sold on client-side-encryption-as-a-product these days but I would honestly wager their new email client is one of the better frontends I've used in the past 5 years. Makes me not bother migrating elsewhere at this point.
I would never trust proton mail
https://www.wired.com/story/protonmail-amends-policy-after-g...
https://www.wired.com/story/protonmail-amends-policy-after-g...
Like any company, Proton must follow court orders, but our encryption can never be bypassed. Also, in 2021, Proton won a court case that changed the way the law is applied (https://proton.me/blog/court-strengthens-email-privacy). Also, Switzerland has no logging obligations for VPN, so you can always use Proton VPN.
The metadata is as important as the message in many cases and very few people actually use PGP. If both sides use Proton mail the assumption is their browsers are secure. One plugin wrong and the screenshots will leak. PGP is a 90’s solution. It’s time for something radically new
While PGP was originally invented in the 90s, the latest iterations of OpenPGP, which Proton plays a key role in evolving and modernizing, looks nothing like the PGP of the 90s, and is now incorporating more and more modern features while maintaining the principles of interoperability. https://proton.me/blog/openpgpjs-4-streaming-encryption
What service do you trust and why?
Try migrating out of Proton. Much harder; no auto-forwarding in the free plan.
You can use their first party tool called Import-Export: https://proton.me/support/export-emails-import-export-app
I think that is a good metric to judge companies/services by: How easy do they make it to quit?
Also democracies: "how easy is it to get you out of office?" is one of Tony Benn's tests.
i was thinking to do the same, but i'm worried about the website i signed in using google sign in. has anyone tackled this issue? is there an easy way to migrate those credentials or do i have to change every account one by one?
I did one by one.
I moved everything to Zoho with custom domain to get rid of google's passive Ads from shopping, banking & whatnot