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I've seen a lot of people on Lemmy singing the praises of proton mail and I've been considering making the switch. I was hoping those of you who use it might be able to give me a sense of the difficulty (or ease) of migrating my current setup to it.

Please keep things simple if you can. I'm not a very tech savvy person and don't understand a lot of the lingo and shorthand about this stuff.

Right now I have a single gmail inbox where I am forwarding several different accounts to it, some from gmail, others from different hosts. I really like this centralized setup, and I have it configured so I can also reply from any of these forwarded email addresses as well (it also automatically replies from whichever email the sender sent to).

Would any of this be hard or impossible to replicate in proton mail? My goal would be to slowly move away from gmail, but it will be a slow transition and I would need my current email addresses to forward to the new inbox as I do so.

Thanks for any insight.

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[–] Paradachshund@lemmy.today 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

That's a great callout and a very important feature to me. Do you use anything other than gmail? To be honest the encryption isn't the main selling point for me, I would just like to de-google where I can these days.

[–] cygnus@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Do you use anything other than gmail?

I set my Gmail to forward to Proton when I switched, and gradually replaced the address in all my accounts and told friends and family to no longer use it. It took about a year but now everything goes to my custom domain. You don't need Proton to do any of that, though. If you want to still reply from your Gmail and don't care about encryption, Fastmail may be a better fit (although IMO it's less of a good value compared to all the extras you get with Proton Unlimited)

Either way, I really can't recommend a custom domain enough. I actually used Fastmail for a year before switching to Proton and it was completely painless thanks to the domain.

[–] Paradachshund@lemmy.today 2 points 2 weeks ago

Thanks for the info. You've given me some things I need to consider.