> Changing email providers sounds daunting, but it ... Probably took a few hours at most.
That does indeed sound as daunting as I feared, unfortunately.
> Changing email providers sounds daunting, but it ... Probably took a few hours at most.
That does indeed sound as daunting as I feared, unfortunately.
> That does indeed sound as daunting as I feared, unfortunately.
You don't have to do it all in one go. It isn't like you have to move everything all at once like you're moving to a new apartment.
I started moving away from gmail years ago. It took probably like 5-10 minutes to set up email under my own DNS control and to set a forwarding address on gmail that pointed to that email.
I didn't even bother to do an initial bulk move of things over to the new email, I just switched things over individually as needed in a sort of on-demand fashion. 30-60 seconds here and there moving over individual accounts one at a time and only when it became obvious that I was moving over something worth keeping up on.
Spread out like that it felt like almost no effort at all.
In my mind it has to be done this way because there's absolutely no way you'll recall everything that needs migrating in a short time. Even if you have a password manager as your email is likely older than it, but it's probably a great start if you have that.
This is the way!
Every time google did something to piss me off I moved an account or two in anger. It felt good. It felt so good that when I searched my gmail and only found google-related hits in my password manager, I was slightly disappointed lol
can always buy a domain with pop3 enabled mail like the old days. pretty cheap.
A few hours pf effort to liberate your email from Google. Well worth imo.