Thank you. I will try out the 33mail.com. Looks good. So far in the last 7
months I haven't had any problems with spamming or legit email being
recognized as spam. I am more careful signing up for stuff and I rely much
more on pulling of information than pushing. In the past I would sign up for
anything and everything but now I will mainly actively visit websites or use
an RSS reader. Now I enjoy getting very few emails!
I had 30 thousand emails in gmail and I spent hours and hours manually
purging my inbox. It was interesting going through all that stuff. It
triggered lots of memories and it was fun. I kept 15 thousand and saved it in
mbox format. I did not export/forward any of them to protonmail. I was not
sure if I would need any of the gmails again. Actually in the last 7 months I
only needed info from the old gmail ONE time. There was an email address that
I forgot. Therefore I imported the mbox into a local Evolution client today
and I found the address.
While I was going through my gmails I wrote down every
contact/address/service I would need to change to protonmail. It was
interesting to see how much I had been relying on gmail and Facebook for
logins for all kinds of pages and services. Tentacles going everywhere after
eight years of use/abuse. It took a while but I kept unsubscribing stuff and
moving to protonmail and when I thought I was finished I saved the remaining
to mbox and deleted my gmail account. The files I needed from gdrive I moved
to Owncloud/Woelkli and to jottacloud. I saved my personal videos from
youtube and uploaded to jotta. I didn't do any email forwarding whatsoever
from gmail to protonmail. I did it all manually and I enjoyed the process.
So the process of moving wasn't too difficult but it was time consuming. But
I enjoyed it. I realized I had to cut the cord completely instead of just
deactivating my Facebook and forwarding gmail to protonmail. I needed to get
rid of it and start fresh. I am glad I did.
