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Semi-hijack with a tangential question: Has anyone put together a resource - or better yet, an automated service - for migrating away from Google (Gmail in par
by trafficante 3y ago
Semi-hijack with a tangential question:
Has anyone put together a resource - or better yet, an automated service - for migrating away from Google (Gmail in particular)?
I’m curious if anyone else here can anecdotally confirm, but in the past 6-12 months a huge majority of the “normies” I originally setup with Gmail accounts (way back when they first came out with 2gb of storage) have been contacting me saying they’re getting dire warnings about storage space resulting in them not being able to send/receive emails “soon” unless they start paying Google. The timing coincides roughly with the crackdown on edu storage space fwiw.
It’s already difficult enough for a tech-savvy person to seamlessly switch emails, but for the avg Boomer getting literal hundreds of spam emails per day I don’t even know how to tell them to begin. I spent a good hour at my parents’ house at least trying to cut down on the spam/newsletter subscriptions and mass deleted tens of thousands of emails - but within a month the “pay up” warning returned.
- sgjohnson 3y ago> Has anyone put together a resource - or better yet, an automated service - for migrating away from Google (Gmail in particular)? 1. Set up a new mailserver/register an email somewhere else; 2. Google Takeout your existing data; 3. Redirect all your incoming mail from GMail to your new email address; 4. Change over the email address of all services you use.
- dmckeon 3y agoFYI, GMail will not forward mail messages sent by Gmail - security alerts, "you logged in from a new device", those dire warnings, and possibly any warning that they are about to delete your address, or turn off forwarding. Caveat usor.
- WorldMaker 3y agoGMail will let you set "backup emails" for those security alerts, however. Setting up new accounts today it will even sometimes require backup email addresses.
- mission_failed 3y agoIf you use labels extensively then you should look at removing before migrating. When using IMAP each label acts as a folder, and if an email has 5 labels then IMAP has 5 copies of the same email.
- dismalpedigree 3y agoNo good deed goes unpunished. You were nice once and are now their dedicated tech support.