It's not hard to switch your email, it's just hard to train other people to send you email on your new address. I have switched to my own domain three years ago

It's not hard to switch your email, it's just hard to train other people to send you email on your new address. I have switched to my own domain three years ago, sent notification to everyone in my address book about the email changes, enabled automatic response on my old gmail account that informs the sender about email change every time it receives any mail, and I still receive ~25% of all personal emails through that old email account. It's the same as when changing the phone number, people will just keep calling you on your old number that doesn't exist anymore and that complain to you that you didn't call back. As a side note, the lack of support for legacy emails in Gmail and Contacts is really bothering me. I would like to be able to mark someone's mail as inactive, so that i can see these mails when I look for old conversations with the person, but not to show up in autocomplete when I try to actually write an email.