This would be me if only there was some way to easily determine where I have used my @gmail address in the past 20 years. I have already set up another address that I own myself and have moved a bunch of stuff over, but I don’t want to lose access to the rest of my accounts tied to my Gmail address.
Although I suppose I could go through my Keepass and list all logins that use my gmail, then chip away at that…
You can setup a rule in Gmail, and tag them when they get to your new inbox. Use Gmail to add a junk CC, or something if the new provider doesn’t have strong automation capabilities.
Then use the tags to go back and change the email on file (if necessary).
After a year if they haven’t contacted you then they obviously aren’t that important.
I found a lot of emails but I didn’t find a lot of emails I cared about enough to update when I did this.
I’m using Thunderbird with IMAP to my own email server for my new email, but I can totally see something like that working to make the transition work. Thanks!
That’s a smart way of going about it. I threw caution to the wind because I stopped using my Google account for services years ago. We’ll see how that affects things in the future.
It does, but that still means Google has access to all my accounts related email until I move everything over.
I suppose it’s a good backstop though, thanks for the tip :-)
This would be me if only there was some way to easily determine where I have used my @gmail address in the past 20 years. I have already set up another address that I own myself and have moved a bunch of stuff over, but I don’t want to lose access to the rest of my accounts tied to my Gmail address.
Although I suppose I could go through my Keepass and list all logins that use my gmail, then chip away at that…
You can setup a rule in Gmail, and tag them when they get to your new inbox. Use Gmail to add a junk CC, or something if the new provider doesn’t have strong automation capabilities.
Then use the tags to go back and change the email on file (if necessary).
After a year if they haven’t contacted you then they obviously aren’t that important.
I found a lot of emails but I didn’t find a lot of emails I cared about enough to update when I did this.
This is a great idea.
I’m using Thunderbird with IMAP to my own email server for my new email, but I can totally see something like that working to make the transition work. Thanks!
That’s a smart way of going about it. I threw caution to the wind because I stopped using my Google account for services years ago. We’ll see how that affects things in the future.
Gmail might have an autoforward thing
It does, but that still means Google has access to all my accounts related email until I move everything over. I suppose it’s a good backstop though, thanks for the tip :-)
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