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<p dir="auto">On 3 Sep 2016, at 5:24, Gary Hull <a href="mailto:YH82d7dfU@yandex.com" style="color:#3983C4">YH82d7dfU@yandex.com</a> wrote:</p>
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<p dir="auto">Glad to hear it. You can set up aliases for accounts on runbox, which might help you.<br>
The migration process is described somewhere on Benny's site, but as I remember you need to do something related to the Gmail tags (if you're using them), and make sure that all mail is in a particular Gmail mailbox (I think you have to move everything from the Inbox into that mailbox, if I remember correctly). Then you make an account in MailMate and sync. You've probably already done this part. Then at Runbox you make an account and make an account for that in MailMate. Finally in MailMate you select all emails in the Gmail account and drag them to the Runbox account. Then you wait, and depending on how many emails you have at Google it could be a couple of days. When it's all done, Google has help somewhere on how to liquidate and close you Gmail account.<br>
As for alternative to Runbox, when I investigated, there was only Fastmail (and Gmail) if you want to use your own domain, which is recommended, since you own it and can move it later, and you want a bus factor > 1. All those other places are single-programmer projects, and some of those guys are up there in years. Customers may be in for a surprise if the proprietor kicks the bucket. MailMate itself has a bus factor = 1, but hey, we love it. Runbox and Fastmail appear to have a bus factor = 3 or so. Gmail has a bus factor = 100,000, which is also its aggravation factor.</p>
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<p dir="auto">Thank for the info.</p>
<p dir="auto">I'm still researching Runbox, one concern I haven't cleared yet is Calendars. I have calendars associated with some of my gmail accounts and I need to find out if Runbox sub accounts can each have their own calendar. I presume they can but need to be certain. I have all my various calendars feed into Busycal on the Mac & Fantastical on iOS, and its a critical part of my workflow. I could leave the calendars where they are but I really don't like the idea of having calendars and emails on too many platforms and since the calendars are logically tied to the email address I want to keep them together.</p>
<p dir="auto">Thanks for the migration info, I do appreciate it.</p>
<p dir="auto">Fastmail just will be too expensive at $50 a year per 'user' which I interpret to be email address. Runbox is quite economical for all it offers.</p>
<p dir="auto">The aliases are a nice feature that I most likely won't use, nor will I use my own domain name. Other than two specific gmail address's to two specific companies, no one knows my real email address's. I have my domains hosted at GoDaddy but not my email The Domains come with a plethora of 'aliases'. So much my email has a sender that is actually an alias with GoDaddy. I can change my actual email provider and then just change where the GoDaddy aliases point and no one sees that I have changed anything.</p>
<p dir="auto">I also use a product called Sneakemail which essentially provides email redirection like GoDaddy but with a unique email address. Like the one I use exclusively for this forum). In fact every vendor I deal with, personal or business gets a unique Sneakemail address from me. so they are the only company or person with that address. If I start getting spam on that address I know either their address book has been compromised or sold. Either way I generate a new address for them, update it with them, and then delete the address being spammed or sometimes I just set it to bounce if I want to maintain an audit trail. As of today I have 1402 unique email address's via Sneakemail, which sound horrendous but Sneakemail provides what, IMHO is an excellent minimalist interface and database to manage these address's. Even my non-technical wife is able to use it with no issues.</p>
<p dir="auto">So I almost never see any spam and when I do I am able to deal with it in a couple minutes.</p>
<p dir="auto"><strong><em>Richard Rettke</em></strong><br>
<em>Laus Deo</em><br>
<em>Non sibi sed patriae</em></p>
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