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How do you even start with breaking up with your gmail?
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Start by changing your most important services to your new email, and set your gmail to forward everything to your new email. From then, sign up to new sites with your new email and change emails of old accounts if you have time, it's not a huge rush.
As long as you set up the email forwarding, you've done most of the important work right there.
You can also auto-label anything in your new account based on From: in the header to indicate that it got forwarded from the old account. This way you will know what you still need to switch over.
Yeah I have them auto go into an "old email" folder rather than clutter my inbox especially if it's forwarding crap newsletters/spam etc. I was very liberal with my old email...
You can also set Gmail to send from your other account. So you get Gmail as an email client.
That's the whole thing you want to avoid lol
But it's step 1 to moving off. Often just having the one place is what holds people back. I've migrated several people from Gmail by just starting with that as an easy transition... just giving out a different email with everything else staying the same.
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