The primary focus of this post is my approach to syncing files between my various devices. So… I migrated from Google Mail to Fastmail and, thanks to their migration tool, it turned out that was about 2 minutes of effort. It even support MaskedEmails (randomly generated disposable email addresses). I think a competent mail provider is probably better at security than I am.įastmail is beautiful and blazingly fast. Unfortunately, it’s getting really difficult to find a VPS whose IP range isn’t blacklisted, so I suffered from intermittent delivery problems. ![]() Mail-in-a-box makes it super easy to setup a self-hosted mail server.or ) because I become hostage to that platform. I’m uncomfortable with making my primary email address a commercial one (i.e.Protonmail requires the use of their app on mobile devices.Protonmail’s calendar and contact management is poor and slow.You can use Thunderbird + Protonmail bridge to accomplish this, but it creates some weird bevaviour because you have two keys (the Protonmail one, and the smartcard one). I strongly prefer my GnuPG keys on a smartcard. While this seems cool, I don’t like them managing the keys for me. Protonmail has built in GPG encryption.The other options I considered were Protonmail, and self-hosting with Mail-in-a-Box. Quick Thoughts on Email #Ī quick note about email… While not the focus of this post, I also migrated my email from Google Mail to FastMail. This post is mostly focused on my migration from Google Drive to SyncThing, but I’ll touch on what I did with email too. Today, I’ve flopped toward privacy and self-hosting.Ī couple of days ago, I was using Gmail for the majority of my email and Google Drive for syncing files between my various machines (Windows desktop, Windows laptop, MacbookPro, Chromebook, and iPhone). ![]() Every six months or so, when the position of the moon is just right, I flip-flop on the privacy/self-hosted vs.
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