--- title: Removing Google as a Single Point of Failure Part 2: Gmail description: Jake Wharton details his approach to removing Gmail as a single point of failure by migrating to Fastmail with a custom domain (ke.fyi), while keeping Gmail as... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/removing-google-as-a-single-point-of-failure-part-2-gmail-tbfs5abrx twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Removing Google as a Single Point of Failure Part 2: Gmail | daily.dev og:description: Jake Wharton details his approach to removing Gmail as a single point of failure by migrating to Fastmail with a custom domain (ke.fyi), while keeping Gmail as... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/removing-google-as-a-single-point-of-failure-part-2-gmail-tbfs5abrx og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/TBFS5aBrx.png og:image:alt: Removing Google as a Single Point of Failure Part 2: Gmail og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Removing Google as a Single Point of Failure Part 2: Gmail **[Jake Wharton](https://daily.dev/sources/jakewharton)** · 7 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Jake Wharton details his approach to removing Gmail as a single point of failure by migrating to Fastmail with a custom domain (ke.fyi), while keeping Gmail as a forwarding address. He sets up a catch-all domain for per-service email addresses, uses Fastmail's near-realtime Gmail sync to bypass IMAP rate limits, and automates incremental email backups using mbsync wrapped in a Docker container. Emails are stored in Maildir format on a ZFS filesystem with snapshots, synced off-site to rsync.net for redundancy. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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