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I feel signing up for a new paid/self-hosted email becomes tricky when a person has used an email for most of his life. All the online-services, grad school, office-alum, etc. use the old email. And now when you switch to a new one then it becomes hard I feel. Any suggestions?

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There's no reason you can't migrate over slowly. I have my freemail and personal domain both in use for this exact reason. Slowly switch over. It won't happen overnight.

I forward my gmail and iCloud accounts to my Fastmail account where my own domain is setup. I also only use my new email address and replace the gmail and iCloud whenever I see it in use. It’s a long process but worth it.

Email forwarding. For anyone you communicated with in the last year (or x months) you can send them an email to update your contact if you wish.

I've not found an online service you can't switch emails with.

> I've not found an online service you can't switch emails with.

I've probably switched email addresses on 200+ websites now, and there were a handful that don't seem to allow switching email addresses back when I made the switch. The situation could have improved since then, but you're basically right, very few don't allow one to change their email address.

I've set up forwarding from the old email to the new one and am slowly pointing everything towards the new email.

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