I am transferring all of my email address; a few years back it took me months to figure out what was all going to my gmail account that was used signing up for stuff even though there was some web app I used, I was going to move away from the Google as much as possible, minus search and YouTube. Several months ago I moved away from Google search, and was stuck with YouTube as there is no real competition to it, that my favourite channels use, so I am stuck with it.

So iCloud’s hide my email was the replacement for Gmail, it was a lot easier to cancel junk mail by being able to just turn off email addresses that started spamming me. Come now to the buy Canadian stuff I am turning off all my hide my email addresses and moving some to proton pass, most of the emails so far I can just delete but many I have to go to the webpage and change the address. It is hard work and I have given myself a deadline of the end of the month when my iCloud subscription is done and dusted. Only 152 email addresses left!

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      9 months ago

      FYI when I switched email providers it was almost totally painless since I use email aliases and a custom domain. It’s a really good setup even aside from the ease of switching.

      Switching from Proton to Posteo was literally just updating a few DNS records.

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          9 months ago

          Oh, gotcha. I use a wildcard address so everything worked out of the box for me since I didn’t need to import specific ones.

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          9 months ago

          Exact same thing with me, I’m like I can’t keep jumping around like this. There’s only so far I’m willing to go, where good enough is going to have to be good enough, it’s far more then most people are willing to do already.