Changing Emails
Lately, I have put quite a bit of thought into changing my email. I have used my old email for quite sometime now and it performs sufficiently. I have my filters and folders set just like I want them to properly sort my email. But the actual email name reminds me of a different time and place. You see its tied to my old blog and houses a brand I associated with that blog and thus Stephen 1.0. As myopic as this seems, I really have felt that I would like to change to a more "grown up" email that is representative of my new blog and self. And with all maturation processes there are significant growing pains along the way.
First and foremost is getting everyone of my subscriptions/friends/logins linked to my new email. Subscriptions and logins are relatively easy as I can migrate them as they are received. Then they are set for life or until I change them again.
Friends are a different story. They will use the old email and complain about changing their address books. I must admit its quite the dilemma and I continue to waver back and forth about what I should do. I did realize that with GMail that I can set my filters to forward all the emails from my old email to my new account and therefore not miss any emails sent in error from an old friend or company. This seems to be a pretty decent solution but I was curious if anyone else had any other ideas on migrating accounts.
I would love to hear anyone else's thoughts on this particularly messy situation.
