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Comment by GianFabien | Hacker News Reader

I am steadily migrating my critical email IDs off Gmail. I'd rather not have Google gather meta-data about my activities.

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I’m with you but if all my friends and colleagues still use it, Google continues to have a whole lot of my info, eh?

Years ago, a dear friend who used to run his own servers, and was even on the board of one of those Internet public interest nonprofits... gave up and moved his email to GMail.

Now, I'm still self-hosting, but most of my private email is nevertheless being archived and farmed by a company, because almost everyone I talk with is using them. Sigh.

Email has never been "private" per se, it's unencrypted as it flies across the internet.

If you want privacy, you need to add a layer of encryption on top.

It’s mostly encrypted in transit (on the wire) now. For such mail, each mail transfer agent can still read it, but network devices cannot.

Most of my non-professional emails are notifications from services, like purchases or whatever. Personal communication is almost 100% in chat apps nowadays. I suspect it's the case for most people.

So no, in that case it's not a whole lot of info.

What’s the best alternative you’ve found?

Fastmail with custom domains.

Own your email domain, but point it somewhere capable.

went from gmail to fastmail to selfhosting.

if you like a no fuzz setup,use fastmail

Same. Fastmail has good migration tools for moving your email off gmail. Probably the same for other similar vendors, but I’ve only moved off gmail once.

mailbox.org with a custom domain.

Own domain name on AWS + Fastmail for email hosting.

I’ve been pretty happy with https://www.migadu.com (can use own domains and unlimited addresses)

Looks good. Zoho similarly offers this.

This looks like it would fit my requirements perfeectly. Thanks for sharing

Moving from Google to Fastmail was pretty painless

Office 365 is not bad and very cheap.

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