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Your ISP is getting out of email. Here's how to leave before they switch it off
Through 2026 a long line of internet providers stopped running email. Goo, Dodo, Sparklight, EONI, Ptera, Evertek, Quadro, Lycos. If your address ends in your provider's name, this is your notice. Moving takes an evening.
Amazon WorkMail is shutting down: how to move your mail before March 2027
AWS stopped taking new WorkMail customers in April 2026 and the service ends on 31 March 2027, after which the data is deleted. Here's how to get your mail and your domain out. Calmly, and well before the deadline.
Gmail Is Ending POP Import and Gmailify: What to Do Before January 2027
Google is retiring Gmail's "Check mail from other accounts" and Gmailify. Existing users lose them in January 2027. How to tell if your custom-domain setup is affected, and your realistic options.
Leaving Forward Email: The Complete Migration Guide (2026)
Great engineering, but no webmail and a tiny team behind the docs. When you wanted an inbox, not email infrastructure, here's how to move (free-tier and paid) with nothing lost.
Leaving Purelymail: The Complete Migration Guide (2026)
Four incidents in five months, a four-person team, US-only hosting and 7 manual DNS records. When the $10 trade stops fitting, here's the evening-long move that loses nothing.
Leaving Migadu: The Complete Migration Guide (2026)
Why people move off Migadu, the 20/day sending cap, the $90 usable tier, best-effort deliverability, and the exact evening-long migration that keeps folders, history and read state.
Leaving Zoho Mail: The Complete Migration Guide (2026)
Opaque sending lockouts, the per-seat model that turns separate inboxes into $180/year, and shared-IP spam-foldering. When Zoho's low price stops paying off, here's the evening-long move.
Leaving Namecheap Private Email: The Complete Migration Guide (2026)
One domain per subscription, forward-only aliases, +25–58% renewals, and a platform mid-migration since June 2026. How to consolidate five subscriptions into one inbox in an evening.
Why Your Email Goes to Spam (and How to Fix It): A Diagnostic Guide
Legitimate mail lands in spam for a few fixable reasons, in a predictable order. Broken authentication, poor IP/domain reputation, bulk-looking content. The exact checklist we'd run, starting with Gmail's Show original.
DMARC Explained: Alignment, Reports, and the Rollout Path to p=reject
DMARC ties SPF and DKIM to the From address people actually see. And sends you reports on everyone claiming to be you. The tags, the alignment rule, and the none→quarantine→reject path.
DKIM Explained: Selectors, Key Rotation, and the Silent Failure Modes
How DKIM signatures work, why selectors exist, RSA vs Ed25519 and dual-signing, why rotation matters, and the four ways DKIM breaks without anyone noticing.
SPF Explained: The Record, the 10-Lookup Limit, and the Merge Rule
What SPF actually checks (not the From line you see), the syntax piece by piece, the one-record and ten-lookup rules that break real setups, and why forwarding defeats it by design.
MX Records Explained: Priorities, Fallbacks, and the Split-Delivery Trap
The DNS record that decides where your mail is delivered. Priorities, why MX points at a name not an IP, the leftover-record trap that splits your delivery, and the null-MX for no-mail domains.
Email on Your Own Domain: The Complete 2026 Guide
Everything it takes to own your email address: the DNS records in plain language, the three setups compared honestly, what deliverability really requires, migration without losing mail, and 2026 costs.