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Thomas's avatar

I use Gmail, even though my personal email is a 20 year old Hotmail account. I do find the Google profile system in Chrome annoying too, though. It really doesn't want you to be logging into multiple Google accounts without opening a new window with a totally different set of bookmarks and extensions where I wish it was just a bit more agnostic about what account you're logged in as. I have always found the Gmail app on Android to be pretty good, though. It's easy to switch between accounts and then there's also a view where you can see emails across all accounts at once (although admittedly I never use this feature)

I did eventually stop using Thunderbird, but I stuck with it for a long time and do miss how easy it was to keep on top of multiple different email accounts

Lanah Tyra's avatar

Strange how Gmail app is so good and convenient on the phone, but on desktop the whole profile thing is just a pain in the backside. My profile is set up on my first Gmail account but now I have one for my brand too and using more features on it, so probably would be easier to set up my profile based on that one but.... that's work XD

Dave's avatar

Firefox with the muti account containers plugin can be good for this. Each tab can be set to be it's own session with its own cookies etc. That does mean you have to use firefox though and as much as I want to use it, pages just don't render with quite the same look as chromium browsers do amongst other things.

Kane Carnifex's avatar

Get your own Domain -> Catch All. (Everything before the @ is valid)

From there i am fine with anykind of web frontend. And Honestly E-Mail didn´t change much in the last years.

Lanah Tyra's avatar

was thinking about it for my brand, but need time, because if I get my own domain I would want it all, with website and everything, and I definitely don't have the time for that right now.

Kane Carnifex's avatar
  1. Domain

  2. Server / Webspace

  3. Mail

Domain

Domain is kind of easy beside finding the right name. (mine is ~20 Bucks per year) The configuration will take you less than 10 Minutes, but until everything is up online and seeded it can take 24 Hours.

Price wise it can start with a promo for like 1€ for 1 Year. After that it can change to like a monthly fee from 1€ to unlimited is everything possible.

If you take everything from one hand it can happen which your freedom is limited. For example they disallow or charge for extra services like a catch-all.

Server/Webspace

Do you want to have a single solution or build it yourself? Anyway this is biggest time consuming part... because you create something.

I run a VPS(20Bucks per Year) with an Kirby CMS (onetime fee) as a simple website. www.vesuvi.de

Mail

The last time i tried to run my own Mailserver... lets not talk about that. Check beforehand which options the mail provider has.

Catch-All is like coming from you Domain sending everything to single Mail. But if you want to reply with your domain and diffrent aliases you may want to double check your Provider what the allow and what not or what they charge.

I pay currently ~7 Bucks for my mailprovider each month.

^^ If you do your own Mailserver you can do what ever you want but its kind of complex. (even if there are guides its deep)

Ah and if you fuck up... you burn the IP and maybe to domain forever on all the spam blacklist out there :P

Time?

Consider configuration for Domain and Mail to be kind of short. But choosing the right stuff etc is like if you buy new tech you read a lot und invest time than you choose .

Aso i use "proton" from Switzerland. Because Switzerland :P I am using https://pr.tn/ref/8W0Y9TCP69SG

Without Referal: proton.me

Important Notes: There is a onside encryption for mails which you send to friends. This is NOT a valid encryption! If you need real encryption use your own PGP and nothing else. This kind of a feature you get which you can use, but not must.

I am using this now for 6 Years.... i will keep it.

TL:DR

My Domain+Website+Mail cost me yearly around 124 Bucks.

Sturmer's avatar

I'm mr. browser tabs, so I don't mind to keep multi mail tabs open. I find it more efficient than installing apps as i have several devices. Putting all eggs in a single basket can also lead to an errors, like sending email from a wrong alias.

To split projects or work/personal stuff i just use different set of tabs or browsers.

Lanah Tyra's avatar

It does seem to be easier to manage Gmail from browser even with having multiple tabs open (that's what I'm doing at the moment as well). It gets annoying when I want to swap for other Google apps to my other profile. Probably will have to swap my main profile over to my brand one to solve the issue, as the original one I have set up is now mostly for email, but Youtube, Docs, Google Drive is mainly my brand profile.

Sturmer's avatar

easiest - to use 2 different browsers.

Lanah Tyra's avatar

Actually that's what I'm doing at work to keep work and personal stuff separate and works good. Which browsers are you using? Was wondering to try Opera again, used to love it but haven't really used it since Chrome came in.

Sturmer's avatar

Edge and opera and firefox for my dayjob. There is Brave too. I'm trying to stay away from Chrome for several reasons.

FUN INC's avatar

I predominantly use gmail.

One tip... you can use Zapier to automate events from your calendar to a discord channel for reminders etc :P - its pretty easy to do.

You give zapier access to your calendar.

Go to Zapier, and find a gmail calendar > discord integration, and then just customise it.

Pretty simple :)

(this is of course if you are looking for reminder functionality etc)

Lanah Tyra's avatar

I see Zapier more and more, never tried it but looks like I'll have to, it seems to be pretty cool.

Discord notifications would work for the calendar updates. The old windows calendar was perfect, but the new Outlook doesn't integrate with the Win10 sidebar calendar.

And just stick to Gmail web so I can organise my stuff with labels.

Paul's avatar

I mainly use outlook as it syncs quite well from my phone app to the laptop. I do have gmail however I rarely use it.

Outlook is good if you need several address also as you can move between them as if they are folders (which are alo easy to set ).

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