yahoo Changing Email accounts

[killerseemore]

So I have two email accounts; one is a personal yahoo and the other is a work gmail. I want to make a whole new gmail that's just for personal like my yahoo but don't know how to get all my emails to the new account. I know I can just set up email forwarding but that wont help if I delete the yahoo account. I am going to transfer all the old emails to the gmail later today. My question is, is there some way to get all the sites that email me to send it to a new email address without going to each site and giving them my new account info? I found this link https://support.google.com/mail/answer/56283?hl=en that tells me how to get all the old emails to my new account but i don't know if any new ones will come if I delete the yahoo once the transfer is complete. Does anyone have an words of advice? 

[m0k]

the safe way would be to change mailing addresses manually 

i wouldnt trust a service to do that for you, for all you know theyre just selling your data which will result in more spam mail forwarded to you

 

[JefferyD90]

3 minutes ago, killerseemore said:

So I have two email accounts; one is a personal yahoo and the other is a work gmail. I want to make a whole new gmail that's just for personal like my yahoo but don't know how to get all my emails to the new account. I know I can just set up email forwarding but that wont help if I delete the yahoo account. I am going to transfer all the old emails to the gmail later today. My question is, is there some way to get all the sites that email me to send it to a new email address without going to each site and giving them my new account info? I found this link https://support.google.com/mail/answer/56283?hl=en that tells me how to get all the old emails to my new account but i don't know if any new ones will come if I delete the yahoo once the transfer is complete. Does anyone have an words of advice? 

Just go to them and change your email...  Don't trust someone else with your information.

[pwn_intended]

3 minutes ago, killerseemore said:

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I recommend keeping the yahoo account after still active. Use it as a burner email for when you need to sign up for shit that's gonna spam you.

As far as newsletters and stuff you wanna get to the new one, I think you'll have to do that manually per site.

[killerseemore]

Okay thanks guys ill do that then. I started manually transferring the emails i need and I'll look up any sites i really need stuff from and go from there. 

[bgibbz]

This is a long difficult process. Just go on to every site you use and change the email to your gmail. I would then edit the signature of your email to include a note about your email change, and send blast email to everyone you communicate with about the change. There isn't really an automatic way of doing (that I know of) but my mother has had to change emails for work recently and this was essentially what she did. Keep the yahoo email open with forwarding for about a year. If someone emails you through yahoo you can reply from gmail and the signature will inform them of the email change if they happened to not get he blast email or whatever. 

[knightslugger]

why not just forward the mail coming into Yahoo to the gmail account?

[Sniperfox47]

Basically you do this the same way you do it for regular mail. You ask the post system to set up a mail forwarding to your new address. In the case of physical mail you go down to the post office and pay them. In the case of E-mail you go to your email provider and set it up yourself, typically for free.

[Zoravar]

1 hour ago, knightslugger said:

why not just forward the mail coming into Yahoo to the gmail account?

1 hour ago, Sniperfox47 said:

Basically you do this the same way you do it for regular mail. You ask the post system to set up a mail forwarding to your new address. In the case of physical mail you go down to the post office and pay them. In the case of E-mail you go to your email provider and set it up yourself, typically for free.

 

 

 

 

I assume OP wants to stop having their email go through Yahoo because they are concerned about the large number of serious security breaches Yahoo has been having lately.  Just forwarding the email does not mean the email goes straight to the new Gmail box.  The email still makes a "pitstop" in Yahoo's systems before going to Gmail.  Because of this "pitstop" your email is still at risk security wise.  To eliminate this risk you need to go to the person/company that is sending the email and have them send all your future email directly to the Gmail address, not the Yahoo address. 

 

Edit to add: This is a long and annoying process, but it is the best option if security was the driving factor behind OP's decision to switch. I think @bgibbz's method is the best way to reduce the transition pains as much as possible.  If OP doesn't really care about the security aspect and just wants their email to show up in gmail, then yes forwarding would work fine. 

Edited December 15, 2016 by Zoravar

[knightslugger]

i wonder how long a piece of mail would remain in the system if you were to have each delivery office forward on to a different address and it became cyclical.

[Zoravar]

1 minute ago, knightslugger said:

i wonder how long a piece of mail would remain in the system if you were to have each delivery office forward on to a different address and it became cyclical.

I'm not sure, but I'm kind of curious.  

 

But for email forwarding, it depends on how the forwarding is configured.  Sometimes forwarding will forward the email to the secondary mailbox but still keep a copy in the primary mailbox (in which case it will stay in the first system forever).  Other times it will forward the email without keeping a copy (in which case it will only stick around in the first system for a few seconds).  It just depends on what settings the primary mailbox offers/you choose to enable.