Hi there!<p>For reasons (mostly that the domain I'm using isn't really appropriate anymore), I'm considering changing my primary email address.<p>If you were wanting to change your primary email what would your strategy be?<p>Ideally:<p>- All emails hit your new inbox
- All logins that require email are using your new email address<p>How would you ensure you haven't missed anything?<p>Would you ever decommission your old inbox?<p>I'm not sure if I'm missing anything else here.<p>Thanks in advance for any input!
Forward $old to $new<p>Setup a filter in $new email that labels all mail received on the $old address, so you know where you need to update your email address<p>Keep this until you don't have any more emails coming in with that $old label for ... however long you're comfortable, 6 months, 1 year, forever. Unless there's a reason you need to decommission the $old one, I'd just leave it there
> How would you ensure you haven't missed anything?<p>This probably isn't of much help now, but adding accounts as they are created to a list, like a password manager, helps to ensure you don't miss any in situations like this.
Quite some time ago, I needed to do a big cleanup of email aliases (I have 500+) and various<p>My approach was to use IMAP integration with my provider to copy all the emails down to my laptop.<p>I then used VBA in Outlook to create a list of source email addresses and counts - then I could update places using those emails.<p>In your case, i'd do something similar.<p>Analyse your existing emails to get a list of emails by source address (or domain).<p>Use that list to figure out what places you need to get updated.<p>Then (per Sydney1's suggestion) - forward old emails to the new address. Preferably tag it somehow so you know that it means there are other places that need to be updated.
I did this a while ago for my own and my wife's email and ten years ago I changed from .nl to .com for the domainname which is effectively the same thing :-)
For both it's forward and forget, I changed some services to reflect the mail change, most I didn't bother. After 5 maybe 6 years no e-mail came through the old address anymore.
So if you have the time and the couple of $$ to keep it up it's a minor issue, it's self cleaning to a large extent.
Setting up automated forwarding would cover your "ideal" needs. That way you can gradually change your logins and make sure that all email sent to old & new addresses end up in one inbox.
if i were moving my primary to a gmail account, i'd setup the "send mail as" thing to receive all the email in your new account, set-up a filter to automatically label it as such, and then set a super strong password w/ 2FA on your previous acct.