It depends a bit what couldn’t afford means in your context, but I would recommend paying for your own (cheap) domain. That way you can move between email providers if for example Google suddenly bundles AI in its plan and becomes too expensive.
The whole package would come to ca. 30€/year here in Norway.
I’d like to do this in principle, but losing my entire email history would be terrible. Then I’d have to make local backups that I have to keep track of and ensure it’s always up to date.
It depends a bit what couldn’t afford means in your context, but I would recommend paying for your own (cheap) domain. That way you can move between email providers if for example Google suddenly bundles AI in its plan and becomes too expensive. The whole package would come to ca. 30€/year here in Norway.
I’d like to do this in principle, but losing my entire email history would be terrible. Then I’d have to make local backups that I have to keep track of and ensure it’s always up to date.