I have completely stopped using google services and software on my personal devices (even have lineageos + microg on my phone. The problem is that I can’t just explain to the technically uneducated people that I changed mail providers. How should I go about doing this?

  • Dagwood222@lemm.ee
    26·
    6 months ago

    The problem is that I can’t just explain to the technically uneducated people that I changed mail providers. How should I go about doing this?

    Speaking as a nontech person, I can assure you that none of us care in the slightest.

    Just give us the new address and we’ll change it. We might curse you for making us do the work, but probably we’ll feel like badasses when we do it in only three hours.

    • Persen@lemmy.worldOP
      3·
      6 months ago

      Ok, that isn’t a problem with family and friends, but for school or work, I would have to change my email on multiple services. Forwarding might work, but I couldn’t ever cut gmail off completely.

  • 2xsaiko@discuss.tchncs.de
    18·
    6 months ago

    While you’re at this, get yourself your own domain so should you ever want to move provider again you don’t have to change your mail address again and can just point the new provider to the same domain

      • yonder@sh.itjust.works
        3·
        6 months ago

        Most of the reputable TLDs like .net can be had for around 10USD a year from providers like Porkbun.

          • yonder@sh.itjust.works
            3·
            6 months ago

            Theoretically yes, but it is probably not a good idea to use it for email since duckdns might not exist in a few years meaning you cannot log into services that used that email.

          • 2xsaiko@discuss.tchncs.de
            2·
            6 months ago

            No. You don’t own that. Plus you need direct control over DNS records since you need to set up MX and TXT records and I think some other records as well.

  • bulwark@lemmy.worldEnglish
    12·
    6 months ago

    Just set up forwarding with a message including the new address. On a related note if your looking to host your own mail server I did for a few years with the docker Mail-in-a-Box. Setup was easy but convincing everyone else’s email providers I wasn’t spam was the hard part.

    • hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      151·
      6 months ago

      Yeah fuck hosting your own mail infra if you’re not a big company with lot of money to throw into it. Just not worth the pain

      Besides, the benefits of doing it are pretty damn minimal except if you specifically want to learn mail infra

  • perishthethought@lemm.eeEnglish
    11·
    6 months ago

    And you can auto-forward your gmail messages to your new address.

    https://support.google.com/mail/answer/10957?hl=en

    I just did that last year and I found some people are too lazy to get the hint but many will notice you’re sending replies back from a different address and will get it on their own. You can’t fix everyone, so don’t try to, I guess.

    • Akasazh@feddit.nl
      5·
      6 months ago

      I’d recommend having a tag set up for Google forwarded mail in your new account, so you can change addresses of people/companies that still use your old email address.

    • sga@lemmy.world
      2·
      6 months ago

      and alongside that, include your new mail as the reply to address, hopefully people will click for that while replying, and eventually save/use the new mail

  • Fake4000@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    6 months ago

    I would look at my list of accounts stored on my keepass folders, and start migrating the accounts, one by one, to a new email account. Some of them might allow changing the email, some might require creating a new account.

    • Q The Misanthrope @startrek.website
      1·
      6 months ago

      I hate it too, I need it and hate it. But it is the standard and honestly if we all switched to whatever else, we would hate that too. The mechanism isn’t the problem, imo, it’s the requirement of maintenance and monitoring.

        • LengAwaits@lemmy.world
          1·
          6 months ago

          None of those are problems for me.

          What is it that you hate about email, then? You’ve piqued my curiosity.

            • LengAwaits@lemmy.world
              4·
              6 months ago

              Thanks for elaborating! You raise a lot of good points.

              I recently tried to consolidate all of my various email addresses into Thunderbird and oh boy is it fun trying to get a 20 year old Gmail account to cooperate. I often find myself having to open up Gmail in my browser just to get anything more complex than checking or writing new email accomplished. It doesn’t help that I have a quarter of a million messages organized between ~70 “folders”, I’m sure, but holy hell… it’s a nightmarescape. Thunderbird never stops querying the server. I’m about ready to backup all of the old messages and just burn the whole account down.