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How to migrate from GMail (lemmy.world)

submitted 5 days ago by LordOfLocksley@lemmy.world to c/degoogle@lemmy.ml

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I've had my GMail account for what must be almost 20 years now, and it's pretty ingrained in my life. My mortgage info comes via GMail, my bank statements come via GMail, my health insurance comes via GMail, etc.

Thinking about migrating honestly seems like an insurmountable task. I have no idea where to begin. How the hell do I go about untangling GMail services from my life.

I've potentially been looking to move to Proton for email, but any other suggestions (preferably European based) would be welcome.

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[–] ProperlyProperTea@lemmy.ml 11 points 5 days ago

Firstly, it doesn't have to be all at once, do it in stages.

Also, when I switched I used it as an opportunity to organize my emails, so I made a finances tag, a medical tag, etc. I would make a tag and move over all the emails that fit that tag, eventually I had moved everything over. It also ended up being a good chance to close accounts I hadn't used before.