I shared a version of this guide earlier this year, but felt a website was needed to unpack the different options fully. So after an unreasonable number of hours, I put together the necessary data and website.

I hope this is digestible enough for the average person to help those looking to take that first step, or for people who are equally passionate and want to get their friends or family involved.

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Every time I post these guides, there is always feedback on things that can improve, or I got wrong. Please do share, as it is the best way for these to evolve!

  • Lor@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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    5 days ago

    you should never use “just one” email. I would find a service that you can have one main account and have a a few aliases.

    • underscores@lemmy.zipEnglish
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      5 days ago

      That’s cool and all but that doesn’t solve my issue of not wanting to use 6+ Gmail accounts, I need to consolidate their inboxes or I can’t move away from Gmail

      • FallenWalnut@lemmy.worldOP
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        5 days ago

        how do

        Not entirely sure of your situation. So you have 6+ Gmail accounts and want a service that can import them into a single account?

        • underscores@lemmy.zipEnglish
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          5 days ago

          I could probably look into it but more so hoping anyone has any ideas or experience as to consolidate the inboxes (keeping incoming emails) into 1 inbox or whatever other strategy would work

          • FallenWalnut@lemmy.worldOP
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            5 days ago

            That’s how aliases work. Pretty much all of the services listed here - https://purchasewithpurpose.io/category/email/ - have them. You can have multiple email addresses, but yet they all go to the same inbox.

            As a strategy to minimize your effort in the migration, start by forwarding all your Gmail accounts to the corresponding inbox and/or alias. You can then start using the new service right away and take as long as you need to migrate your accounts across.

            • underscores@lemmy.zipEnglish
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              4 days ago

              Thanks to you I was able to forward all incoming stuff from Gmail into aliased inboxes

              cheers

            • underscores@lemmy.zipEnglish
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              5 days ago

              Perfect, so there is a way to forward incoming emails right?

              I wasn’t thinking of aliases but using aliases as the address to forward to is pretty smart