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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?

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[–] skuzz@discuss.tchncs.de 52 points 5 months ago (1 children)

"My new email address is persen@icloud.com"

Done.

No explanation necessary. Just give people the new address.

(Just used icloud as a bad joke there.)

[–] shortwavesurfer@monero.town 29 points 5 months ago (1 children)

If op still has the gmail an auto response like "this address is no longer checked, please email me at [new email]"

[–] Persen@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

People would just ignore it or send an email later.

[–] Dagwood222@lemm.ee 26 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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.world 3 points 5 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 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] Persen@lemmy.world 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Thanks. I will, when I actually have regular income and could afford it.

[–] yonder@sh.itjust.works 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] Persen@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Wait, could I set it up with something like duckdns?

[–] yonder@sh.itjust.works 3 points 5 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 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Persen@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago
[–] cyborganism@lemmy.ca 16 points 5 months ago

It's like when you move IRL. Just give them your new address. Done.

[–] bulwark@lemmy.world 12 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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.com 14 points 5 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.ee 11 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Persen@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago

Wow, this is actually a cool feature. I might set it up later.

[–] ryannathans@aussie.zone 10 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Set up auto forwarder from gmail to your new account

Tell people you changed email address

Ez

[–] Akasazh@feddit.nl 5 points 5 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.

[–] fraksken@infosec.pub 3 points 5 months ago

Autoforwarder and autoreply. Tell them automatically 😊

[–] sga@lemmy.world 2 points 5 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

[–] pelletbucket@lemm.ee 8 points 5 months ago

what are these conversations looking like when you're having them?

[–] Fake4000@lemmy.world 5 points 5 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] Persen@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

Oh, you reminded me of that. Thankfully that isn't that important for me.