Access while traveling

Google has this really annoying ‘feature’ of blocking my e-mail access any time my IP changes (ISP grants a new DHCP lease? BLOCK! Switch from Wifi to cellular data? BLOCK!, etc). This has annoyed me to the point that I want to get off gmail entirely.

I send/receive (combined) maybe 200 emails per month. What I do is travel. I don’t necessarily need to be able to send e-mails, but I MUST be able to read them. My devices are all configured to download+delete e-mails and sync amongst themselves. I don’t rely on IMAP. What I do rely on is not being blocked from logging in with a username+password (NONE OF THIS MFA BULLSHIT!) from any IP in the world without question. Does mxroute offer this or not? I’m also looking into just getting a VPS and hosting my own mail server (which I do now, but on a residential network, so it’s stuck as ‘receive only’) just so I can know that my e-mail will work anywhere in the world.

Yeah we don’t do anything like that, no worries. The only IPs we block are ones recently discovered for abusive behavior like brute force login attempts (a very high threshold), and a few blacklists that only list IPs recently identified by intrusion detection systems at a few different ISPs (attempting to reduce brute force by known attackers to keep systems performing better).