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An entire day! I wish it were that easy. My password manager says I have 331 accounts using my gmail address. I figure it'll take me a year to move everything i
by dnr 6y ago
An entire day! I wish it were that easy. My password manager says I have 331 accounts using my gmail address. I figure it'll take me a year to move everything if I spend a couple hours a week. I categorized them into tiers based on importance and still ended up with 63 in the top "important or regularly use" tier and 59 in the next "will probably use again" tier. The lower tiers, I'll probably not even bother with.
- searchableguy 6y agoThere is an automatic email change option in few password managers but yeah, that's one of the reasons why I have been redirecting lot of things using my own domain name. If in future, some service go down - I can reroute that. If google deprecate gmail, no worries.
- johannes1234321 6y agoChanging it in the password manager is the easy part. The tricky one is changing the account details on the different site and switching from @gmail.com to @myfancydomain.whatever
- fossuser 6y agoI have 163 accounts for clarity, so it’d probably take you two days. I do mean an entire day, I basically did it for 12 hours. Have to find some ways to entertain myself during the pandemic lockdown :).
- DavideNL 6y agoSame here, but I simply forwarded ALL incomming e-mail from my old Gmail to my new email address. That way, i did not have to change all website accounts at once. So I slowly updated a lot of less important accounts/websites to my new email address over the period of 1+ year.
- ehsankia 6y agoThe incremental approach is always the better solution imo. For email, for password managers, for any big migration. People always put off saying it'd be a lot of work, but if you start at any given time, within 1-2 year you'll be fully migrated. This is what I did for password manager, I migrated each website on a per-use basis. Every time I used a website with a manual password, I replaced it with a generated password. This automatically prioritizes more important websites, which you tend to use more often. For email, similarly, you migrate to the new email, and you give people the new one gradually too. Eventually anything that's left over will be spam, and that'll actually be your "less-important" secondary address you can give to websites you don't care about.
- 1vuio0pswjnm7 6y agoWhat is Google's policy on accounts set up to forward all mail re: scanning contents of forwarded messages?
- DavideNL 6y agoI don't think it really matters; Google has a track record of abusing privacy (regardless of what the policy is.)
- 1vuio0pswjnm7 6y agos/policy/practice/ Published "privacy policies" seem to be a way of preserving opacity. It is nigh impossible, absent litigation discovery, to decipher what the company is actually doing.