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What's a good alternative to Gmail? (meganice.online)

submitted 1 year ago by i_am_hungry@meganice.online to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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Trying to de-google and looking for an alternative to Gmail.

Don't mind if it's a paid service if it's robust.

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[–] carzian@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

OP is looking to move away from Google. Immediately getting locked into a different, arguably more restrictive, platform isn't a solution.

Now in general:

Pros:

free
company will stay in business for a while

Cons:

subject to Apple's privacy policy
US based company, not great for privacy
locked into a different platform
Apple's walled garden ecosystem means long term use is questionable. Will Apple keep supporting 3rd party email clients in 1,3,5 years? Do they even support it now? Who knows?
Apple has control over your account. If they screw you over on an iPhone purchase and you do a credit card charge back on them (for any reason really) do they let you keep your account? Google doesn't

[–] dot20@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Is it free? I thought e-mail is only in the paid iCloud plans

[–] sparemethewearysigh@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

It is free and comes with 5GB of cloud storage. For $1 a month, you get 50GB of cloud, a personal domain, Private relay (basically built in VPN), and email relay (masks your email address when signing up for a site, site never gets your actual email address, apple receive an email at the masked address and forwards to you.)

[–] Matt@lemdro.id 2 points 1 year ago

Basic email is free, but you need iCloud+ to get support for custom domains and more than 5GB of storage.

[–] carzian@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

Couldn't tell you. I assumed it was free but I haven't used an apple device in years

[–] Hiru@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

It’s free but you need a Mac or iOS device to set up a new mail account