• silentknyght@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Curious what you decide. I feel trapped. My Gmail has been my primary account for almost 20 years. With that kind of longevity, switching would be extremely disruptive.

    • berg@lemm.ee
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      1 year ago

      When I did it I just forwarded my mails to the new service (fastmail) and changed mail address whenever a mail got forwarded in. When I didn’t receive a forwarded mail for a year or so I deleted my old mail and never looked back.

      If you use a password manager this get easier though, since you can just lookup where the old mail is used.

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        1 year ago

        Never realized this was a benefit of password managers. Even happier I’ve been on Bitwarden a few years now.

    • vale@sh.itjust.works
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      1 year ago

      3 months later I finally started the process. Got Proton Unlimited and am slowly transitioning my Google drive over