I have completely stopped using google services and software on my personal devices (even have lineageos + microg on my phone. The problem is that I can’t just explain to the technically uneducated people that I changed mail providers. How should I go about doing this?
“My new email address is persen@icloud.com”
Done.
No explanation necessary. Just give people the new address.
(Just used icloud as a bad joke there.)
If op still has the gmail an auto response like “this address is no longer checked, please email me at [new email]”
While you’re at this, get yourself your own domain so should you ever want to move provider again you don’t have to change your mail address again and can just point the new provider to the same domain
The problem is that I can’t just explain to the technically uneducated people that I changed mail providers. How should I go about doing this?
Speaking as a nontech person, I can assure you that none of us care in the slightest.
Just give us the new address and we’ll change it. We might curse you for making us do the work, but probably we’ll feel like badasses when we do it in only three hours.
Just set up forwarding with a message including the new address. On a related note if your looking to host your own mail server I did for a few years with the docker Mail-in-a-Box. Setup was easy but convincing everyone else’s email providers I wasn’t spam was the hard part.
Yeah fuck hosting your own mail infra if you’re not a big company with lot of money to throw into it. Just not worth the pain
Besides, the benefits of doing it are pretty damn minimal except if you specifically want to learn mail infra
