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Proton removed post on UserVoice calling for Andy Yen to step down
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Really wish I didn’t have so many proton aliases now. Went to cancel just now and realized how many things I’d need to locate and swap over.
Switching to monthly billing and starting the process, I suppose. Really disappointing all around, but it’s not like the writing hasn’t been on the wall for a while.
Buy a domain and apply it to your proton account. then update all your account's email addresses. Then migrate.
Next migration will be much less painful
If I have a bunch of aliases created in SimpleLogin for my personal domain, what do I actually need to do to migrate? Since I'll lose SimpleLogin if I leave Proton too.
It's a lot easier to enable catch-all on the mail system, rather than manually creating aliases on a service like simplelogin.
If you do that then that's all you need to do for a migration.
Create a catchall address for your domain, and update the MX records on your domain to point to your new email provider. It doesn't matter that you were using simple login previously. Fastmail offers this for example.
I have about 8 months left on my family plan, and I'm already changing those aliases, which has allowed me to go over some abandoned stuff and some things I didn'tknow that I want to eliminate. Already test-driving (and hammering hard) stalwart for email on a VPS, and just 2 days ago I finally finished deploying Psono in my proxmox (way harder than I remember vaultwarden, but bitwarden is no longer an option for me because it is on a different path to the same exact bullshit).
My main friction will be moving my wife yet again from one workflow to another (Fuck Proton for putting me through this shit again).
Still no idea what I will use for geographic VPN, but that's nowhere near as important for me as password manager and email.
We already have everything on my server with nextcloud for files and immich for videos and pictures, so that's a non-issue for me.
Yeah I'm in the same boat. The aliases are a great way to lock in users....
You already have another service that does aliasing well? While I have my own domain I feel like their mail and alias management is a pain...
Mailbox.org has aliasing and supports custom domains
Addy.io can use your own domain.
Unfortunately not. Starting the search now. I’ve got my own domain that makes sense to use for the stuff I don’t associate with my real name, but not one I’d use for my professional or non-terminally-online contact info, lol.
Same for me, I have a mail with only my initials on a known and reputable holster for professional stuff.
But for all those online shops, websites etc using aliases would be a treat and for that I could also use my own domain like amazon@example.com etc...