So you’re fine with your data being slurped. Migrating away doesn’t take that much effort. Redirecting some dns records and setting a forward-all rule in the old email address. What am I missing?
Changing the email address associated with all of your accounts is a nightmare. Having changed my name recently, it was easier to just make a new google account than to try and change the email on my old one
Hundreds of filters, tens of addresses, labels and probably other things. It's not that it's technically hard, other things are just more important.
Well I’m not sure which platform you’re migrating to but I wouldn’t be surprised if there is some automation tool to help (if self hosting). For example, Fastmail has a quick guide for transferring (including the pieces you mention): https://www.fastmail.help/hc/en-us/articles/360058752414-Mig...
Migrating to a self-hosted setup. Again, not a technical/know-how problem, it's a "problem" of time/priorities :)
Yes I understand it’s an issue with time, that’s why I’m suggesting automation of some sort. Hence why I didn’t drop a link to Cyrus IMAP docs.
Thanks for the recommendation, but even with automation it requires a bunch of work, probably most it will be testing and making sure it all works, so how to automate it isn't really why I'm putting it off.