Email is an open system, right? Anyone can send a message to anyone… unless they are on Gmail! School Interviews uses two email servers t…

  • aebrer@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    My recommendation (assuming you have a normal @gmail addy and not a custom domain like I had) would be to use email forwarding. So you can leave your Gmail as is, but set it up (in the settings) to automatically forward all your email to your new protonmail address. Then you can gradually change the important contacts/sites to your new email at your leisure.

    I do highly recommend buying a domain and setting up your own email address though, it gives you a lot more portability going forward. You can actually do a lot with your own domain, and it helps you maintain trust better.

    Anyway, enough preaching lol, protonmail also maintains a guide to help people switch: https://proton.me/easyswitch

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      1 year ago

      Buying a domain you mean going to a registrar like I did for my lemmy instance?
      Or do I need to buy it from an email provider?

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      1 year ago

      If you’re recommending setting up a forward/IMAP collection from a Gmail account, don’t forget to mention deleting the messages from the server as well! Emails left on a server for more than 30 days are considered “abandoned property” for the purposes of warrantless search.

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          1 year ago

          The most I could find is that the Electronic Communications Privacy Act allows for warrants to be issued for emails less than 180 days old. I’ve found vague references and snippets from articles no longer available that seem to claim some acts that have passed since then allow for simple subpoenas instead of full on warrants for said emails, but 180 days is the only threshold I’ve found and again, it’s for less than 180 days that’s at danger.