Misadventures in SMTP and IMAP

Adventures in SMTP and IMAP

Roughly two years ago I began a journey in privacy, to separate myself from using services where my personal information, my habits and patterns where the product. The first step I decided to go on with this was communication, starting with email and secure messaging applications. Having been a user of Gmail for the majority of my life, I decided that would be the first migration I made.

When selecting a new email service with the primary concern of privacy lead me to ProtonMail. It’s currently the most popular option for secure email, and it’s feature’s and privacy focus was what I was looking for. In addition it would allow me to easily create and manage a number of email addresses for various tasks, including having an email using this domain which is something I always thought would be neat.

Doing this really only took a few DNS records with AWS Route 53  as that was the service I had my domains registered with. Following that I started importing my prior inbox’s to ProtonMail using their easy switch tool. The process took some time but left me the ability to start moving every login, account and anything else over to my new email.