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How to migrate from GMail (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 week 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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[-] Imad@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Proton allow for both: One-time archiving from gmail. And also email forwarding afterwards.

For me I am using thunderbird which locally store all emails from both gmail and proton. And I regularly backup emails to my hard drive

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