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.
No, that's self-hosted email, which is indeed problematic since it would be coming from a dynamic address.
I'm talking "I have a domain, I use a paid email service connected to that domain for email." The provider has a good reputation and has been around long enough that I don't feel there's a threat of them going away.
I quit using gmail when their spam detection got super flaky. Almost all of the stories I post are from RSS feeds that I watch and email to myself. I used gmail at one time to email those feed captures to another gmail address. One day, I noticed that a lot of stuff was missing, and it was in spam - all marked as "This is in spam because you reported it as spam from the console" or something along those lines, which was amusing because I rarely logged into the webmail portion - it's all client or sendmail based. Nothing I could do would make that go away, so I dropped gmail for everything except those items I don't want going to my domain address, such as payment notifications for said domain.
Gmail used to be the gold standard of web mail services, now it's just another "yeah, it mostly works sort of kind of but not really because it does suck donkey dick pretty hard these days" email services.
I have had this domain for business for almost 20 years. I'm with a reputable host for the majotiy of that time. I still have issues with my email going to spam. On the flipside of spam, the ability for the software on the server to filter spam has gotten so much better over the past 5-10 years.
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