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One problem that I wish all of these “Move Away from Gmail” articles would address is how to update all of the websites you’ve already created accounts on to yo
by hysan 7y ago
One problem that I wish all of these “Move Away from Gmail” articles would address is how to update all of the websites you’ve already created accounts on to your new email address. I’ve had my own email address for several years, but I still keep the old gmail one around because I’ve found that many websites do not allow you to change your email address. This makes it problematic if you have a decades worth of accounts tied to gmail.
- beart 7y agoI just kept my Gmail account but receive virtually zero email on it.
- thanksforfish 7y agoThis is also true for sites that use Google accounts for OAuth. Your account has a one to one mapping to your Google account. You can keep the old address and auto-forward emails from the old to the new. I think that's the best you can manage.
- benhurmarcel 7y agoI just progressively went through all my accounts in my password manager, and changed the email. I used my Gmail account to register to everything for more than a decade, but since I also kept a complete list of all my accounts, it wasn't an issue to change it one by one. I still have my Gmail account, it just sits empty (in case). There's no need to delete it.