Changing email address after nearly 20 years

[ADHDDDDDDDBOOM]

Has anyone done this?
Im sick to death of Yahoo. Outlook is so much better.

But the Yahoo address is attached to absolutely bloody everything.

I feel like even if I start using outlook, I will never be able to update everything and always be slightly tied to yahoo.

I looked into redirecting yahoo mail like you can when you move house but it doesn't look that simple and one website suggested it was now not possible.

Has anyone switched emails after such a long time?

Yes. It's great as it means you can leave all the shite stuff behind!!!

Tell important people like family and friends.

Then update key stuff like house and car insurance. If you have subscriptions or professional associations tell them too.

And then everything else...regularly check Yahoo and each time an email comes in that you value then update. Otherwise just ignore.

Job done!

I did this back in November. I’d had the same email address since I was 10, and going on nearly 20 years later I was just so sick of all the spam emails.

I set myself a date in December 2022 to have everything moved by. I went through my emails from the prior 3 months and chose what I wanted/needed to keep, then went to those sites/accounts and changed the email to my new one. I kept the old email for the month to make sure I hadn’t missed anything and then set it to delete the following month.

So I had started in November by setting up the new email, spent December making sure everything was crossed over and by January, my old accounts were gone.

It’s important to take it slowly so nothing important gets missed (insurance accounts, bank details, work details, etc)

I did this a while back

You do have to be careful though as some emails I only got annually (TV licence, water)

But it's a great way to get rid of spam.

I split my account into two emails in the end. One for important stuff like banking, insurance and so on and one for shopping/purchases/mailing lists which does help restrict the spam to the less important account

I have many email addresses.

One for all the old shite, which I'd had for 20 years.
One for the bank and all the relevant visa and accounting and tax and important stuff emails.
One for signing up to different forums like this one.
And several more that I use now and then when I need another one for some reason.

You have made me consider it very differently, thanks for the those tips.

im going to take that on and do it.

@ADHDDDDDDDBOOM I did it after having same email address forever (switched from btinternet to googlemail)
It is soooo much better.

I did set aside quite a few hours on a Sunday to do it. I have an encrypted vault password list of all that I deal with from rail tickets, purchases, social media, shopping, financial, subscriptions, travel companies and far far more. And first I went through each one of those (probably about 50 or mor) and managed to change my email address on all but about 3 which I had to ring (pathetic in this day and age)

Then I wrote an email to all my personal contacts (hiding their email addresses from each other) notifying them that as from today this is my email address. And if they used the old one, I wouldn't get it.

I then disabled the old email address which is the best thing to do, because anything that came through I wouldn't have wanted anyway! And if any of my friends or family tried to email me on the old one it would bounce back and they would remember!