For reasons (mostly that the domain I'm using isn't really appropriate anymore), I'm considering changing my primary email address.
If you were wanting to change your primary email what would your strategy be?
Ideally:
- All emails hit your new inbox - All logins that require email are using your new email address
How would you ensure you haven't missed anything?
Would you ever decommission your old inbox?
I'm not sure if I'm missing anything else here.
Thanks in advance for any input!
Setup a filter in $new email that labels all mail received on the $old address, so you know where you need to update your email address
Keep this until you don't have any more emails coming in with that $old label for ... however long you're comfortable, 6 months, 1 year, forever. Unless there's a reason you need to decommission the $old one, I'd just leave it there
This probably isn't of much help now, but adding accounts as they are created to a list, like a password manager, helps to ensure you don't miss any in situations like this.
My approach was to use IMAP integration with my provider to copy all the emails down to my laptop.
I then used VBA in Outlook to create a list of source email addresses and counts - then I could update places using those emails.
In your case, i'd do something similar.
Analyse your existing emails to get a list of emails by source address (or domain).
Use that list to figure out what places you need to get updated.
Then (per Sydney1's suggestion) - forward old emails to the new address. Preferably tag it somehow so you know that it means there are other places that need to be updated.
WhyTF isnt this an actual out-of-the-box dashboard on every single email client??