I urgently need to switch away from Gmail. I'm missing emails - who knows how many - and it's beginning to hurt my business.
I have checked and ticked off all the boxes from the Gmail FAQ's and the support links, nothing went to spam or trash (I check those every day), I searched in:anywhere - I did follow all the instructions, so no need to send me links :)
Google must have changed something on their end that doesn't allow certain emails to come through anymore. It started with a friend getting frustrated in December, because it took her 3 or 4 times to get emails through to me. I thought it was just her, but now it happened to a business contact, and I realized a number of other people I hadn't heard back from anymore.
I noticed I'm getting a lot less spam emails, too. So it's clear they changed something. It should be up to me to decide what's spam or not. Or they are censoring random emails that contain the word "Bitcoin", which is the case for pretty much all of my emails since it's in my signature, and which would explain why this also happens with replies to me. Which really shouldn't happen.
So time to look for a new email provider. Ideally one with the same amount of space... But maybe also a good opportunity to move to an encrypted one? Any suggestions? I know about Protonmail - I heard the rumors that they were maybe not as encrypted as they claimed, not sure if that was true - does anyone have any experience with them?
Any suggestions welcome, and feedback too, if you've been experiencing the same issues with Gmail. Thank you! 🙏