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Comment by Vinnl | Hacker News Reader

Hmm, I transitioned from Gmail to my own domain years ago, but it's still Gmail. However, I'm still both receiving and sending mail from my old @gmail.com address, using POP. Do you know if that's still possible?

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I also have an old Gmail account that I don't use directly anymore. Instead of POP, I set it up to forward everything to my mailbox.org account. It works for me this way for several years now. The only issue is that I don't get the spam forwarded, so you can't see if there are false positives. You can still see it in Gmail if you occasionally log in. For me, since this is a rarely used account, the spam I get is usually indeed spam, so I don't miss it. It might be different for a more active account, though.

Cool thanks, I might set that up as well. And did you just set it up as an alias so you can send email from it as well?

(I don't actually know how often I send email from that address, so maybe I don't even need that, but just in case.)

For sending in Mailbox.org webmail there is a thing called alternative senders where I can add email addresses to send from. I have something similar on my Android K9 app, where it's under Manage identities where I can also add the allowed senders.

I set it up a long time ago this way and I'm unsure of I had to somehow configure Gmail to be able to send from my other account. But I have the same also for @live.com and @zoho.com as I was trying different providers. This allows me to easily reply to forwarded emails with the old email addresses.

Edit: I think you got with the alias, didn't know this is what is called in Google https://support.google.com/mail/answer/22370?hl=en#zippy=%2C...

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