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?
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.