Tell HN: Lost then regained access to Google account, with correct credentials

Re:Tell HN: Lost then regained access to Google account, wit... by siddharthgoel88 on Friday December 03, 2021 @08:43AM (#29429912)

I feel signing up for a new paid/self-hosted email becomes tricky when a person has used an email for most of his life. All the online-services, grad school, office-alum, etc. use the old email. And now when you switch to a new one then it becomes hard I feel. Any suggestions?

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Re:Tell HN: Lost then regained access to Google account, wit... by nameisname on Friday December 03, 2021 @08:47AM (#29429945)

There's no reason you can't migrate over slowly. I have my freemail and personal domain both in use for this exact reason. Slowly switch over. It won't happen overnight.

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Re:Tell HN: Lost then regained access to Google account, wit... by macinjosh on Friday December 03, 2021 @08:48AM (#29429952)

I forward my gmail and iCloud accounts to my Fastmail account where my own domain is setup. I also only use my new email address and replace the gmail and iCloud whenever I see it in use. It’s a long process but worth it.

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Re:Tell HN: Lost then regained access to Google account, wit... by chrisan on Friday December 03, 2021 @09:04AM (#29430116)

Email forwarding. For anyone you communicated with in the last year (or x months) you can send them an email to update your contact if you wish.

I've not found an online service you can't switch emails with.

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Re:Tell HN: Lost then regained access to Google account, wit... by btrettel on Friday December 03, 2021 @09:23AM (#29430309)

> I've not found an online service you can't switch emails with.

I've probably switched email addresses on 200+ websites now, and there were a handful that don't seem to allow switching email addresses back when I made the switch. The situation could have improved since then, but you're basically right, very few don't allow one to change their email address.

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Re:Tell HN: Lost then regained access to Google account, wit... by chipgap98 on Friday December 03, 2021 @08:47AM (#29429941)

I've set up forwarding from the old email to the new one and am slowly pointing everything towards the new email.

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