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Switching email addresses is somewhere between very hard and impossible. I have a Fastmail, which I now use for new sign-ups, but I have lots of accounts on my

• gumby 6y ago
  1 - get yourself a domain and use that as your mail address going forward. Then your mail address can be independent of your provider. 2 - Point it at your mail provider, say fastmail. 3 - Tell gmail to forward all your mail to your new address. 4 - Ask your friends to use your new address. Make sure your mail client uses it as the from address. 4 - <wait a little while and then>: Put a rule in your mail client to highlight (flag or colour or whatever) all messages that were forwarded from gmail. This will help you figure update people, companies, mailing lists etc.
  • philjohn 6y ago
    That works fairly well for most needs, but you will more than likely hit an issue with that one website or company that uses your email as a primary key, and it either can't be changed, or you have to contact them to do it manually on their end.
    • gumby 6y ago
      Well you can leave the gmail account around for these stray cases or, you know, contact them.
• benhurmarcel 6y ago
  You can (almost) always change your email address. Just connect to the website and it's usually an option.