3 Easy Steps To Break Up With Your Email (And Never Have to Think of It Again)

3 Easy Steps To Break Up With Your Email (And Never Have to Think of It Again) If you think youre alone in hanging onto your middle school schmelzglas address, youre not. Eventually, the time will come where youve outgrown backstreeeetboyz4evayahoo.com and a more mature emaillele provider (and address, hopefully) beckons. Heres how to make the email break-up process as painless as possible. Though there are many wonderful email providers today, well be exploring the two most common, Gmail and Outlook.If youd prefer the heavy lifting be done by professionals (expensively), you can always hire a service to migrate your emails for you, such as Aid4Mail or YippieMove.Step One Pack Up and Go (or How to Migrate Your Old Inbox Into Your New Inbox)Migrating your emails will allow you to keep everything you once shared with your former email, but with a new, kinder, better-looking email.GmailMigrating from Yahoo or AOL into Gmail is fairly simple using Gmails Mail Fetcher tool. Heres how.1. S ign into your new Gmail account (if youre carrying over your Backstreet Boys branding, please do reconsider), select the gear icon, then Settings2. Open Accounts tab3. Select Add a POP3 mail account you own option from the Check mail from other accounts section4. Enter your former email address, click Next Step, and enter your password5. Select your preferred options, such as Archive Incoming Messages or Leave a Copy of Retrieved Message on the Server6. Select Add AccountOutlook1. Sign into your new Outlook account2. From Settings, select Connected Accounts3. Click Other Email Accounts4. Submit your former email address and password5. Hit ConfirmStep Two How to Keep Tabs on Your Ex (or How to Forward Your Old Email)Migration doesnt take care of forwarding any new emails that come in from your old address, so if you still want to see flashes of your past from time to time, forward away with the methods below.If you dont want to see your old emails all of the time, you can create filt ers to leave the spam untouched. Find out how here.Gmail1. Open Gmail and select the gear icon2. Click Settings3. Choose the Forwarding and POP/IMAP tab4. Select Add a forwarding address5. Submit new address6. Youll receive a verification email at your new email address, hit the verification linkOutlook1. Select the gear icon and click More Email Settings2. Choose Email Forwarding3. Check Forward your mail to another email account. Submit new email addressStep Three Notify the World of Your Freedom (or How to Change Connected Accounts and Tell Your Friends and Family)The continued integration of digital products into our everyday lives usually serves to make life easier for us, but in this case, it can range from a mild annoyance to an all-out fiasco. Heres how to mitigate between the two.Note You dont HAVE to change your email on the accounts you hold, but its a good idea to swap your email, should your former email encounter any issues, or, if you decide to let it die. (Again, it doesnt need to, if you do all of the above).If you use a password organizer such as DashLane or 1Password, shifting your accounts will be far easier, as you already have a list of all the places youve registered within these apps.If you dont use a password manager, youll need to hunt down all the places youve registered. Your life can be made slightly easier by searching through your emails for terms such as confirm your email, verify your email, new account, verify account, confirm account, etc...I know this is painful, but its almost overLastly, be sure to send a musiknote to anyone you want to stay in touch with from your new email address. And if there are others you dont want to stay in touch with - then simply dont inform them.Be sure to download our handy guide herefor a shortcut on all the info laid bare above.Now go forth, prosper, and enjoy your new email address