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⏰ Changing an email address changes a lot more than the address. I'll look at common scenarios and a few additional approaches.
⏰ Changing your email address
To change your email address:
- Create a new account at an email provider.
- Begin using that new account.
- Change your registered email address on all online accounts.
- Change your email address for every newsletter subscription.
- Tell your contacts to use your new address.
- Stop using your old email address.
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Chapters
0:00 Change an email address
0:28 What it means
1:16 A new email address for an online email provider
2:56 A new email address using an email program
3:53 But I don’t want a whole new account, just a new email address!
4:46 Forwards, fetches, aliases, and the promise of change
7:58 What if I don’t have access to the old account?
8:38 Your own domain: the ultimate answer
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⏰ Changing an email address changes a lot more than the address. I'll look at common scenarios and a few additional approaches.
⏰ Changing your email address
To change your email address:
- Create a new account at an email provider.
- Begin using that new account.
- Change your registered email address on all online accounts.
- Change your email address for every newsletter subscription.
- Tell your contacts to use your new address.
- Stop using your old email address.
Updates, related links, and more discussion: askleo.com/2178
🔔 Subscribe to the Ask Leo! YouTube channel for more tech videos & answers: go.askleo.com/ytsub
✅ Watch next ▶ How Do I Move Emails From One Account to Another? ▶ youtu.be/LlBW7et-m5E
Chapters
0:00 Change an email address
0:28 What it means
1:16 A new email address for an online email provider
2:56 A new email address using an email program
3:53 But I don’t want a whole new account, just a new email address!
4:46 Forwards, fetches, aliases, and the promise of change
7:58 What if I don’t have access to the old account?
8:38 Your own domain: the ultimate answer
❤️ My best articles: go.askleo.com/best
❤️ My Most Important Article: go.askleo.com/number1
More Ask Leo!
☑️ askleo.com to get your questions answered
☑️ newsletter.askleo.com to subscribe to the Confident Computing newsletter.
☑️ askleo.com/patron to help support Ask Leo!
☑️ askleo.com/all-the-different-ways-to-get-ask-leo for even more!
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