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[–] 14 points 9 months ago (6 children)

This would be me if only there was some way to easily determine where I have used my @gmail address in the past 20 years. I have already set up another address that I own myself and have moved a bunch of stuff over, but I don't want to lose access to the rest of my accounts tied to my Gmail address.

Although I suppose I could go through my Keepass and list all logins that use my gmail, then chip away at that....

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  • [–] 5 points 9 months ago* (1 child)

    You can setup a rule in Gmail, and tag them when they get to your new inbox. Use Gmail to add a junk CC, or something if the new provider doesn't have strong automation capabilities.

    Then use the tags to go back and change the email on file (if necessary).

    After a year if they haven't contacted you then they obviously aren't that important.

    I found a lot of emails but I didn't find a lot of emails I cared about enough to update when I did this.

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  • [–] 4 points 9 months ago

    This is a great idea.

    I'm using Thunderbird with IMAP to my own email server for my new email, but I can totally see something like that working to make the transition work. Thanks!

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  • [–] [S] 3 points 9 months ago

    That's a smart way of going about it. I threw caution to the wind because I stopped using my Google account for services years ago. We'll see how that affects things in the future.

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  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    Gmail might have an autoforward thing

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  • [–] 6 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    It does, but that still means Google has access to all my accounts related email until I move everything over. I suppose it's a good backstop though, thanks for the tip :-)

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago

    Setup a rule in Gmail, and then tag them when they get to your new inbox. Use Gmail to add a junk CC, or something if the new provider cannot do this.

    Then use the tags to go back and change the email on file (if necessary).

    After a year if they haven't contacted you then they obviously aren't that important.

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