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This is what I've done: sync your Gmail account with a regular mail client and backup the mail clients database so as not to lose any old emails. Step two crea
by TheSpiceIsLife 8y ago
This is what I've done: sync your Gmail account with a regular mail client and backup the mail clients database so as not to lose any old emails.
Step two create new email address with dedicated email provider, one known to have good customer support.
Step three, stop giving out your Gmail address, and over time update your email address on all the services you use.
You can't take your @gmail.com address with you to a different provider, I think that would break the way the Internet works.
- giancarlostoro 8y agoAnother option is to get a personal domain where the dedicated email provider can support. If you own the domain to your email, you can switch providers more seamlessly, of course you gotta back up your emails through a third party client. Maybe a third party web client you can host yourself that stores your emails. Maybe something like Mailpile: https://www.mailpile.is/ https://www.mailpile.is/
- TheSpiceIsLife 8y agoOh yeah, I should have mentioned I registered two domains. One is my firstnamelastname.com and the other is k45j.com so I use a364@k45j.com because it’s short and unambiguous to say over the phone.
- keypusher 8y agoYou can have gmail forward everything to the new address.
- ocdtrekkie 8y agoThis is mostly what I did but using a domain of my own. I made an email forwarder using my own domain and pointed it at my Gmail. Over 18 months I moved every account I came across over to it. So when I switched the forwarder to FastMail, most of my email transitioned immediately. And since I used my own domain, I never have to go through this again. If I move from FastMail, I just change where the forwarder points again, all my mail already uses it.