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Moving the actual messages is not the hard part, you could always just download them. Figuring out who all has your old email address and trying to update it ev
by gigel82 3y ago
Moving the actual messages is not the hard part, you could always just download them. Figuring out who all has your old email address and trying to update it everywhere is the hard part.
- doubled112 3y agoThe first time I went through this exercise I decided to put the email address I'm using for each service in my password manager. If I ever need to do it again, at least I know who has what.
- radicalriddler 3y agoI just set a autoforwarder in gmail for the time being, and then updated the important services as they came through.
- interestica 3y agoThis highlights the absurdity of using email addresses as immutable user IDs
- stubish 3y agoMost countries with >1 telco needed to mandate phone number portability, because the telcos would not do it voluntarily. I can't see it being fixed for email though. The sanest ways would be to provide a domain per citizen (essentially operating as a registrar) or a centralized email forwarding service, and I don't see any government putting in that sort of effort for a problem most people don't realize they have.
- euroderf 3y agoiki.fi does that. It's excellent.
- philwelch 3y agoThat’s part of what makes it convenient to own a domain and handle your email through that.