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Good move! I was there before, and the worst part was... I was using a @gmail.com address. Bad mistake on my part. So actually tracking what I used the address with, that was my real pain. Now everything is on my custom domain, so if I need to move on from my current provider, it will be painless. In the process I did manage to delete a whole bunch of accounts I didn't use anymore.

Incidentally, I also moved to fastmail, and it is just boringly fantastic. It works. It has features I actually need and enjoy (masked emails!) and I recommend it to anyone who asks.



>I was using a @gmail.com address. Bad mistake on my part. So actually tracking what I used the address with, that was my real pain.

This is thankfully mostly solved now by AI. I recently had a do a migration that I had been putting off for years and it was relatively painless.


> This is thankfully mostly solved now by AI.

How did you solve this with AI?


They said “mostly”. AI solves 90% and then you solve the other 90%.


Lol. On almost every post someone comes in to say that $problem was easily solved by AI. Usually out of the whole context of the thread.

Snake oil level comments.


What is the 90%?


I had it read all of the emails find which accounts were associated with the old email and then go switch them to the new email. I only had to manually intervene for 2 accounts out of 36ish.




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