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Every new feature from Google is a middle finger to their users, then you get some corporate double speak about how it's all well and good and how it makes the product better.

Get a Fastmail account, I got one after I got tired of google breaking my IMAP settings every other week. They're cheap, they have most everything you'd need from an email provider, and they don't require a special app like proton.

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I think if I'm gonna pay for using email, I'll just try to get any cheap VPS/domain and try to run my own email. It'll be more expensive for sure, but at least it will be my own thing I'm paying for.

Just depends whether or not the effort it takes to find a VPS company whose IPs aren't blocked by major email providers, and then ensuring that your emails continuously make it through to their destinations, is worth the cost savings.

I share your sentiment, but I opted for Fastmail because the effort wasn't worth the savings. YMMV, obviously.

The problem with running your own email is getting past the spam filters.

The big email providers have basically built a walled garden around email by blocking anyone outside the garden as spam. They have no incentive to open the system to people who run their own email.

Fastmail service with a custom domain includes 10GB storage and zero hassles.

I tried fastmail and then there was no search on the drive aspect. had to move back to google

I'm able to search for filenames in fastmail files. I guess you refer to searching file contents?

You can mount the files via WebDAV then grep away or point an indexing tool at that as desired.

Fastmail is great at email. If you want a G Suite experience, then you'll need...well, Google.

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