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So you’re fine with your data being slurped. Migrating away doesn’t take that much effort. Redirecting some dns records and setting a forward-all rule in the ol
by righthand 1y ago
So you’re fine with your data being slurped. Migrating away doesn’t take that much effort. Redirecting some dns records and setting a forward-all rule in the old email address. What am I missing?
- diggan 1y agoHundreds of filters, tens of addresses, labels and probably other things. It's not that it's technically hard, other things are just more important.
- righthand 1y agoWell I’m not sure which platform you’re migrating to but I wouldn’t be surprised if there is some automation tool to help (if self hosting). For example, Fastmail has a quick guide for transferring (including the pieces you mention): https://www.fastmail.help/hc/en-us/articles/360058752414-Migrate-to-Fastmail-from-Gmail https://www.fastmail.help/hc/en-us/articles/360058752414-Mig...
- diggan 1y agoMigrating to a self-hosted setup. Again, not a technical/know-how problem, it's a "problem" of time/priorities :)
- righthand 1y agoYes I understand it’s an issue with time, that’s why I’m suggesting automation of some sort. Hence why I didn’t drop a link to Cyrus IMAP docs.
- antisol 1y agohttps://github.com/layfellow/imapcopy https://github.com/layfellow/imapcopy
- diggan 1y agoThanks for the recommendation, but even with automation it requires a bunch of work, probably most it will be testing and making sure it all works, so how to automate it isn't really why I'm putting it off.
- voidUpdate 1y agoChanging the email address associated with all of your accounts is a nightmare. Having changed my name recently, it was easier to just make a new google account than to try and change the email on my old one