Gmail Lockout Alternatives

Use your own email address with Gmail, make regular backups and switch the provider if Gmail locks you out.

Yes, better use Gmail and loose your whole account in a few months/years

I would probably recommend two things: 1. Move away from Gmail as soon as possible, to a service like Fastmail or Proton Mail; 2. Have an email from that provider as the “last resort”, i.e. [email protected], while using your domain name based emails for most other things.This doesn’t solve the “everything is in one basket” issue, but you don’t hear stories of these email providers just “closing” an account and causing immense trouble for the person, at least in part because they have actua

I think the suggestion was to get your own domain. You can use gmail as a service and if they kick you off you still own your domain and your email address. If you're smart you might backup the email. That's fairly easy to do.

Register your own domain and use that for email. Then you can move that domain's email service to different providers.I use Gmail right now, but I could move my domain's email to Fastmail or another provider without _too_ much work.Of course, it's also a good idea to back up your email archives too, since that _can_ go away with the loss of a provider's service.

You can use Gmail with your own domain. That way, it's easy to switch if this ever happens (just a matter of updating some DNS records).

I use gmail, but I use it as [email protected]. If they ever suspend/destroy me, at most I'll lose a few emails before I point my domain elsewhere. I already maintain an account at fastmail.fm for the few times that gmails smtp has gone down; they are responsive and I've had email conversations with them a few times.I also use thunderbird and have it automatically save the All Mail folder.Given the years of monolithic indifference shown by Google, I don't know why anyone with the awareness a

I pay yearly for G Suite to avoid this issue by using my own domain instead of @gmail.com. If I ever had an issue I can change my email provider (also backup email regularly using Takeout or in the past using offlineimap).Unfortunate that it’s necessary but I think it’s a good idea for everyone who can.

I was just as entrenched but am about a year into a gradual transition. Signed up with another email provider with an address @ a domain I own, transferred my entire mail history, forwarded all incoming gmail emails to new provider, updated all public facing contact @s to new address, switched mostly to open source email clients, all new accounts are made @ the new address, old ones stay @ the old one. It's not perfect and it's not trivial but it's 100% worth it.

I've been slowly migrating logins off of a @gmail.com email and onto an email at a domain that I own/control for this reason. It's tedious and feels a little like an overreaction (presumably the odds of this happening to individual users are pretty low). On the other hand, the thought of some faceless fraud algorithm deciding that I should no longer have access to the credentials I use to log in to my bank, investment accounts, DMV, etc and having no real recourse beyond posting o