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Anyone know if someone has ever put together a checklist or routine to perform when migrating from one email service to another?
I’d love to get off of Gmail, but trying to wrestle with 20 years of account signups, purchases, subscriptions, etc. is a Herculean effort I’m struggling to put into practice.
Most providers will provide migration tools, including the ability to periodically scrape your old mailbox for new messages. I migrated from Gmail to Proton a while back and it was shockingly easy even with custom domains.
I would really, really like a self-hosted solution where I can search my Gmail archive at the same time as my current email account. So I just have to search one place for “emails.”
It’s not a particularly nice way of doing things, but worst case: if you can add both your old and new accounts in, say, Thunderbird, you can literally drag your emails from your old mailbox and drop them into your new one.
A better option might be to see if whatever software/host you’re looking at supports gathering email using IMAP - that way it can migrate all your existing emails autonomously and periodically scrape your old mailbox for new ones.
Anyone know if someone has ever put together a checklist or routine to perform when migrating from one email service to another?
I’d love to get off of Gmail, but trying to wrestle with 20 years of account signups, purchases, subscriptions, etc. is a Herculean effort I’m struggling to put into practice.
Most providers will provide migration tools, including the ability to periodically scrape your old mailbox for new messages. I migrated from Gmail to Proton a while back and it was shockingly easy even with custom domains.
The flip side is, migrating off proton is an absolute shitty experience.
Same here. The other worry is how many of these smaller companies will be around in ten years? Will we be able to move again if they go under?
I would really, really like a self-hosted solution where I can search my Gmail archive at the same time as my current email account. So I just have to search one place for “emails.”
It’s not a particularly nice way of doing things, but worst case: if you can add both your old and new accounts in, say, Thunderbird, you can literally drag your emails from your old mailbox and drop them into your new one.
A better option might be to see if whatever software/host you’re looking at supports gathering email using IMAP - that way it can migrate all your existing emails autonomously and periodically scrape your old mailbox for new ones.
Move and use both for a bit and let it be gradual.
Set a forwarding address to gmail and use your new going forward.