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Not for me, but.. A honest question - now, when G suite legacy free edition is closing down, here's a chance to offer a service that's not "piggy-backing" on gmail (or any other provider).

You could "re-create Inbox" by providing email hosting with same/similar features - already lined up on your page.

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Wouldn't that be a huge effort though, as you'd have to essentially implement deliverability and spam all from scratch, all while trying to convince gmail users to switch. I tried Hey and found that it just wasn't going to work for me as they wanted to 'own' my email.

Interesting, can you expand on why Hey 'owned' your email? I guess no access outside their app?

For a long while Hey didn’t support personal domains. Had to use @hey.com

And Hey explicitly doesn't support IMAP

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