Any tips for migrating off of gmail? Have over 40 accounts tied to it

3 points by gxs 8y ago ↗ HN

Just curious to see if I'm missing some obvious shortcut to moving off of gmail.

Decided on fastmail after some research, but the task is starting to look daunting. I've counted 40 accounts so far and I imagine there are at least 5-10 more minimum.

Any ideas? Or do I just have to go through the pain of doing each one, one by one?

Lastly, any best recommended practices for letting contacts know? Current plan is to forward emails to fastmail and just start replying with my new email address and overtime have people's contacts update automatically.

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mig4ng 8y ago ↗

I would suggest migadu (https://www.migadu.com) I would also suggest you contacting them and ask them for help they will tell you the best option.

[dead] PythonDeveloper 8y ago ↗

I would recommend you run your own email server. DigitalOcean offers a vm with mailinabox installed ( https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-run-... ) and that gives you complete control over your organization. At that point you control everything.

Also see https://mailinabox.email/ .

If you want to ensure delivery, route your email through SMTP.com's SMTP servers.

Gmail has an IMAP interface which you can use to import/export your email boxes and folders.

(I have no ties to emailinabox, fwiw).

fghtr 8y ago ↗

posteo.de provides a possibility to automatically move all your mails from a gmail account (not affiliation).