Email is an open system, right? Anyone can send a message to anyone... unless they are on Gmail! School Interviews uses two email servers t...

Email is an open system, right? Anyone can send a message to anyone… unless they are on Gmail! School Interviews uses two email servers t…

  • Beej Jorgensen ( beejjorgensen@lemmy.sdf.org ) 
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    3 years ago

    +1 on having your own domain. I was using gmail for a long time, and recently switched to my hosting provider’s included-with-purchase email. Having my own domain made the move transparent to everyone, and relatively painless.

    • Chobbes ( Chobbes@beehaw.org ) 
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      3 years ago

      Yeah, exactly! You also brought up something that I probably should have mentioned too — it’s not uncommon that your domain registrar or hosting provider includes e-mail or offers it cheaply too.

      Having the domain seems pretty critical to me and gives you a huge amount of flexibility — even if you just plan to stick with gmail, it gives you the option to migrate to something else in the future relatively painlessly. Your e-mail is your primary online ID, and not having control of it is actually kind of scary!