He's going to have to create the whole infrastructure that Gmail offers to stand a chance, the office suite, file storage / sharing etc.
I could see musk getting tired of twitter and just turning it off one day. I don't think I'd trust a mail service from the same guy, at least not for longevity. I pay for a couple of addresses on a domain, I know at least they'll be there unless the internet goes away.
I have only had 2 emails deleted off of servers in my life. Gmail hasn't deleted a server on me yet. I'll stick with Gmail until they can't keep (((their))) servers running anymore due to incompetence.
I've lost one email service over the years, it was one of those early ones that provided a semi-custom email name for groups, at no charge - something like yourgroupname.ourname.com - the company decided to shut down the service and concentrate on their paid email services. I believe they're now part of mailcentro, a big email outsourcer.
Other than that, I've voluntarily closed email accounts as the services hosting them got shitty. Hotmail, yahoo, etc. Still have a couple of gmail accounts because reasons, but I've mostly only kept those for reasons and use my domain email service.
Then your domain emails create a new problem. Everyone else uses Gmail and Gmail marks your emails as spam/junk.
You can fix this by routing your domain emails......through a Gmail account.
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