Hi. On Sun, May 15, 2022 at 10:08:57AM -0400, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > My understanding is that the (only?) way to do get such a permanent address > is > to have my own domain and assign an email address in that domain to me?
If you have to be in control over sending and receiving e-mail you'll need your own MTA. That implies a domain you control. > Also, iiuc, I cannot move my gmail address to some other provider? You cannot. But Google is merely following a common practice here, i.e. I know nobody in that market that can provide such a service for you. You can buy a domain and use Google MTAs to serve e-mails for it, but you cannot transfer it anywhere. I.e. you can change DNS records, run a different MTA, but you'll lose your mail at Google. > I'm also aware that there are some, iiuc, "free" top level domains -- I > vaguely remember an announcement some years ago, .xxx sticks in my mind as > one > of them That one is usually associated with pr0n. Conversing with a "permanent e-mail" in such domain is probably not the best idea. > -- ahh, maybe not, but I can't remember the others -- is .name one of > them? In a way, yes. .name domain will still cost you about $5 per year, $10 at max. But then .net domain will cost you about the same (it does for me, at least), and .net is more popular. > (I was going to send that longer post to the list seeking confirmation on the > various things I think I learned (or assumed), and I may do that later (and > consider adding it to my wiki) just for education and posterity.) IMO you're trying to solve a simple problem the hard way. Rent yourself a VPS, buy a domain, set up MTA and some kind of IMAP/POP server. It's not that hard if you're going to use it for yourself only. Reco