[Alpine-info] Gmail Access

[Steve Litt via Alpine-info]

Brian S. Baker [VIA BBUS] said on Thu, 23 May 2024 12:53:57 +0000



>To the issue hand. Says that Gmail is notoriously difficult to set up

>using Alpine. 


Or Claws-Mail or pretty much any other email client.


>I don’t doubt that, but just from my experience just

>because you own your own domain for 15 or $30, that doesn’t

>necessarily mean that it’s easier to set up. It would be for Gmail,

>even though you’re right in that point.

>

>What I mean by that I own five domains of my own. GODADDY recently

>gave all of their email services management to Microsoft. At that

>point you have to pay at least $38 every year to maintain your email

>not only that, but I had to Ask Eduardo for assistance, because I had

>a hell of a time trying to set up everything, and I must’ve

>communicated with him at least 35 times during this entire situation,


Ugh! I guess Godaddy sucks too. I'm having great luck with
ionos as my domain registrar, as well as shockhosting.net as my web
host, which gives me a lot of email addresses. It would be pretty easy
to transfer your domains to ionos, or any other quality domain
registrar.

SteveT

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