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But in the end won't most of the sent emails still go through Google's servers, thanks to the ubiquity of Gmail?




Yes, even if you blacklist mail explicitly outbound to Gmail a huge number of companies still use it under the covers through Google Apps. I suppose you could blackhole their MX through local DNS.

Other than that the only real protection is encryption but aside from my pension provider and a former ISP I have not encountered companies that advertise a PGP key.


Dreamhost and Facebook both let you receive PGP-encrypted emails. (And it seems "all" major news sites now have PGP-keys listed somewhere …)




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