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KeepFlying@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

The main trouble is the same with switching any email service really.

You need to update your email everywhere…everywhere… this usually means keeping the old email account alive perpetually just in case you find some old account you didn’t (or can’t) update.
You need to back up all your old emails. This is usually easy on things like Outlook or Thunderbird or anything similar.

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Swarfega@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Use an email alias service and you’ll never need to change your email address on sites again in the future. You can change to a new mailbox provider in the future and update all your aliases to point to your new email address within a minute.

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- aceshigh@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  so mail forwarding?
  
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  - Swarfega@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Yes, but also no. When I reply to an email my mailbox address is not exposed. The email appears to have come from the alias.
    
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- KeepFlying@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  That’s a great solution but still takes a bit to switch to initially. I’m just talking about the switchover, after that using an alias service or having your email on your own domain helps save a lot of pain later.
  
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  - Swarfega@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Yep. It takes a long time to go around updating all your sites. I’ve had lots of sites where I have to contact them to change my email address as you can’t do it yourself. Even instances where it just can’t be done so I’ve asked for account deletion instead. Still, never again now.
    
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MadBob@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
I can sympathise with the problem, but are people not writing down somewhere which sevices they’re logged into with Google? I’m sure there’s a bit in the settings where you can see it, now I think.

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- KeepFlying@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Google lists the sites you use single sign on for, but it doesn’t keep track of how many sites list your Gmail account as your recovery email, or the sites where you had to create an account that uses your email as your username.
  
  If you’re lucky all those accounts aren’t important, but there’s always a chance you’ll forget one that matters and if youve canceled your Gmail account you’d be screwed if you need to recover that random account.
  
  So you’re basically stuck keeping Gmail alive for a few years even after you’ve stopped using it just in case you forgot some accounts.
  
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