I’ve moved almost completely to Proton Mail. I expect I’ll end up keeping a Google or Outlook account, not for use as a primary account, but as a recovery account or to access other services.

I currently see a lot less value in the google account than outlook, but that’s because my family does need access to full blown office. Libre office does 98% of what I need, but on occasion I do need office. An install of 2010 would probably meet that requirement as well. Firefox is set to delete cookies on exit, and I do not ever stay signed into these services.

Does anyone else keep free service email accounts around, and if so, what do you use them for? What’s the pit-fall I’m not seeing if I try to restrict them and treat them with the Principle of Least Privileged model?

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    1 year ago

    Out of curiosity, I’ve heard that emails being undelivered is a huge problem with self hosting as well since it gets flagged as spam. Is this something you’ve frequently encountered?

    Also I appreciate the offer for help and will definitely consider it!

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      I’ve only really had issues with outlook rejecting email when I had DKIM config messed up, but it’s been fine the last few years. I’ve emailed friends, companies, their support endpoints - it’s worked well. There are penalties for new domains and new IPs used within the domain, but they go away in a week or so.