Gmail Users May Soon Be Able To Change Their Email Address and Keep the Old One (9to5google.com) 51
Google appears to be testing a feature that would let users change their @gmail.com address for the first time, according to an official support document. The support page exists only in Hindi, suggesting an India-first rollout, and Google notes that users will "gradually begin to see this option."
The feature would let users switch to a new @gmail address while retaining full access to their old one, effectively giving a single account two working email addresses. Emails sent to either address would arrive in the same inbox, and existing data in Drive and Photos would remain unaffected. Users who switch cannot register another new address for 12 months. Google has not officially announced the feature.
The feature would let users switch to a new @gmail address while retaining full access to their old one, effectively giving a single account two working email addresses. Emails sent to either address would arrive in the same inbox, and existing data in Drive and Photos would remain unaffected. Users who switch cannot register another new address for 12 months. Google has not officially announced the feature.
What? (Score:2)
How is this any different from an alias?
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Re:What? (Score:5, Informative)
There's no good will here. If you want to change your email address, you either create a new account and abandon the old one, or create a throwaway account and forward all mail to your old one. Either way they lose that precious tracking profile on you and potential ad revenue. Now they're just plugging that hole so they can keep tracking you while you go by whatever you want.
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You must PAY for two mailboxes at PROTONmail ... and alias what alias .
This isn't true.
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Plus, it doesn't really fix the real problem that I have with my GMail address. I get tons of spam thanks to my 15 year old e-mail address being part of about 2 dozen security breaches over that time.
What I should really do is just start over and change my e-mail address on most of my commonly used accounts, but even that's a temporary solution. I know that they'll be another breach or someone will just flat out sell my e-mail address to a mailing list without my consent.
Re:What? (Score:5, Funny)
On the contrary I can't wait to get my new gmail email address. My email address is ilovebrenda@gmail.com and my new wife has a different name so she hates it.
Re:What? (Score:5, Funny)
On the contrary I can't wait to get my new gmail email address. My email address is ilovebrenda@gmail.com and my new wife has a different name so she hates it.
Will she hate it even more when you futureproof the new one to ilovemycurrentwife@gmail.com?
Try ilovemywife@gmail.com and hope she doesn't think about it too much.
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Serious reply to funny joke post.
Your mistake here was simple: 1) You got married. Marriage has exactly zero benefits for men yet many risks and costs. 2) there is no 2.
Men: do not marry. You are signing a contract that the government encourages the other party to break by providing them benefits at your expense for breaking it and no benefits for adhering to it. You can have a loving LTR, kids, shared housing, and everything else without inviting the government into your relationship. Stop marrying. It doesn't prove your love, it proves you're a fool. I've got literally everything any married man could possibly ask for without the risk and loss of millions my first/only divorce cost me. I call her wife, we have a kid, she wears a big shiny ring, we share our lives but if anything bad goes down the only thing we split is the dishes. No, your wife to be is not different from other girls. Ignore everyone who tells you you're weird or broken if you don't marry or re-marry. Notice those are almost entirely women saying how important marriage is. They're right. It is important. To women.
Where the hell you been, man? Havent' seen you recently.
While off topic, you are correct. The institute of marriage. has tilted so heavily in favor of women, and functions more as a convenient method of pecuniary extraction from men, when she gets bored of you and steps out. She's free to marry the next guy, and you're no longer attractive, being stripped of your resources.
Coupled with the last 15 years of the new womanist instilled hatred and mantra "It's all men until it is no men" casting 100 percent
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Here n there I've met young men who were soon to be getting married. I told them how the laws work, etc. Told them there's no benefit to them and so on. Then ask them why they're getting married.
Marriage is not a rational choice, but if a man's got that nagging urge to raise a family then that's what's going to happen, despite the terrible risk/reward ratio. I happened not to be born with that urge, but apparently the large majority of men are. The lizard brain tends to win out in these fights.
The lizard brain can be sated with one night stands and engaging with professionals too. An escort every once in a while is still cheaper than marriage.
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Here n there I've met young men who were soon to be getting married. I told them how the laws work, etc. Told them there's no benefit to them and so on. Then ask them why they're getting married.
Marriage is not a rational choice, but if a man's got that nagging urge to raise a family then that's what's going to happen, despite the terrible risk/reward ratio. I happened not to be born with that urge, but apparently the large majority of men are. The lizard brain tends to win out in these fights.
The lizard brain can be sated with one night stands and engaging with professionals too. An escort every once in a while is still cheaper than marriage.
I'm not talking about the sexual urge or need for intimacy.
Then the man must realize that it might cost him everything. And fully accept that. And fewer men are willing to accept that rigged game any more. SO if a man is foolish enough to marry today, he's either stupid in love, has no ability to do risk versus reward analysis, or accepts the statistical outcome.
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Hey man, I've been here but I have some intellectual coward stalking me who mods me down no matter what I say so I'm limited to 2 posts a day but the site quality has declined so dramatically in the last year I don't always find 2 articles or posts worth commenting on each day so I'll just skip that day.
Ah yes, I get those occasionally. Weird isn't it, that we can just post truth, and it causes rageboners?
Yeah my ex turned into the modern woman. Textbook. Didn't even bother to ask why I divorced her. Was so certain I was going to be forced to take care of her for the rest of her life. Her error. She very quickly burned through a few million and was broke the same year I retired. I asked for very little and gave her everything. Wasn't enough. She thought she could do better. She's single and working, living check to check now.
Wow, that is textbook. Too many modern women confuse how easy it is to get laid with how hard it is now to get a long term relationship.
In full disclosure, I have been really lucky. The wife could have been the basic modern woman, I mean she was a VP of the corporation she worked for, and the highest paid there, and paced me income wise - I did pay close attention to see if she ever started making more
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Nice argument. It's straw men all the way down. Of course it's only a small fraction of men, but if there were a bowl of M&Ms all perfectly normal except one that would kill me, then I wouldn't eat any of them.
So is your thesis that until it is no women, it was all women?
For you see, women commit crimes against men. Here is your homework sparky/ Watch "Snapped" on the Oxygen channel. A show about women who kill their husbands, boyfriends, fathers, mothers, and their children. All true documented crimes. It's been on for many years.
So - I take it you will refuse to marry or get into a relationship with any women, because a fair number of women commit violent crimes. You're smart to comment as a waste of
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If you live in any sane jurisdiction in North America, you're common-law married by now.
Re: What? (Score:2)
Get the new address and then filter the old one straight to trash.
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I know that they'll be another breach or someone will just flat out sell my e-mail address to a mailing list without my consent.
What you really want to do here is have Infinite email addresses and the Capability to instantly Add or Drop as many email addresses as necessary. Then for every website or person you do business with - create an email address for yourself just for that person or company.
Yes there will be breaches. Yes will people with no right or permission will flat out sell or abuse your e
Re: What? (Score:2)
Presumably it won't use the "on behalf of" header or whatever it is (original sender maybe) for who it's from.
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It sounds like an alias system which is basically what I would love. Aliases are simple database entries, and Ideally they should not even limit us to two.. I would love to have a bunch of alias slots that can be rotated out, so I can add and drop various email addresses on a regular basis in order to reduce spam.
Please google.. Let me change my Gmail account's login email address, but still be able to receive email at the address and manage it like a permanent email alias. In short, just because
Re:What? (Score:4, Interesting)
It sounds like an alias system which is basically what I would love.
I have run my own email server for about 20 years now, and I have over 500 email address aliases; a unique one for everyone I have ever emailed. Whenever I start getting spam on one, I know exactly which service was compromised without having to go to haveibeenpwned (it seems like most online services have been compromised). I can disable the email address and create a new one at will (or I just live with it).
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This is the way to do it. I own my own domain, which costs me around $10/year. I rent a VPS to act as my MX server for $3.50/month and my actual IMAP server is a Raspberry Pi 4 on my network. I can make as many addresses as I want, and when I'm at home, I access my email at LAN speeds.
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An alias would simply re-direct the mail sent to it to your real address: it doesn't invalidate the address you already have. This one enables you to change your original address, and use the old one either as a secondary or as a fallback address, so that people who have the old contact still get through. I believe one could choose to disable that, for instance to reduce spam
Why not just open another Gmail account? (Score:2)
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I use aliases a lot (1 per website I register to), and the difference is you can't answer from an alias. So if I ever need to contact customer support, I need to:
* log into the domain management platform
* delete the alias
* recreate it as mailbox
* add one address to my POP/SMTP routines on my primary machine
* do the interactions (can take a couple of weeks)
* delete the mailbox, re-create as alias
Their solution doesn't help me in my case, but it help Ms. Alice Smith who gets married to Mr. Bob Jones, wants to
Is this a feature? (Score:2)
Is it rocket science to get a second gmail address?
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It was maybe too easy to make another account. They'd rather have your different email addresses explicitly linked.
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looks like it's just something to talk about after all..
Lazy Stupid FTW!!
<weeps for humanity, then show self out>
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Here is a nifty idea ... (Score:1)
They could fix the way their system handles email addresses in the first place: firstlast@gmail.com is the same as first.last@gmail.com. I think there are other variation of this also.
Or better yet, properly implement if the RFCs instead of trying to be different and innovate when they cannot even get the basic right.
Re:Here is a nifty idea ... (Score:5, Interesting)
They could fix the way their system handles email addresses in the first place: firstlast@gmail.com is the same as first.last@gmail.com. I think there are other variation of this also.
This was actually a quirk that could be used to find who was selling your email address. Giving different vendors variations of JohnDoe, John.Doe, J.ohndoe, Joh.n.D.o.e, etc helped you determine who valued your information more than your privacy.
Another option was to use the Plus addressing. By adding a "+" and a label (folder) you could direct the email into a specific folder and also track who you gave that address. JohnDoe+Walmart, JohnDoe+TacoBell, JohnDoe+Sheraton will all arrive in your inbox and if a matching label is found, it will be applied.
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https://www.howtogeek.com/plus... [howtogeek.com]
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These are awesome tools Gmail does provide.
Unfortunately the flaw of both systems is that Plus addressing and Dot addressing are both highly visible.
I recently found there are major companies I supplied a username+vendor@gmail.com address who simply Automatically removed the "+vendor" part from the email address and just start using username@gmail.com at some point in time. Also; new signups or attempting to change email address to a Plus address is now rejected with a validation error. Even tho
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There's nothing to fix. This was a design decision up front to prevent account impersonation and it's a good one.
You can do this now, with no restrictions. (Score:3)
Re: You can do this now, with no restrictions. (Score:1)
What about sending? (Score:3)
That works fine for receiving; less so for sending. I'm hoping the new feature will have an easy pull-down to select which email address you are sending from without logging out and back in.
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Given that already works with aliases you've defined in Gmail, I'd think it's likely to also work with this (hypothesized) upcoming second Gmail address.
Re:What about sending? (Score:4, Informative)
I already have a pulldown which lets me send email from five different aliases that deliver to my gmail inbox. In Settings under "Accounts and Import" there's a "Send mail as" section for setting this up.
There are 1.5 billion people in India (Score:4, Interesting)
They're gonna take all the good addresses!
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Still the GMail domain? (Score:1)
At first, I thought this was an attempt at bypassing email filter blocks (nothing from DoNotRedeem@GMail.com, please). But there is so much garbage coming from GMail that some users (including myself) have sequestered it into its own folder (conveniently next to the trash can).
That this is a Hindi first feature leaves me to believe masking one's identity is endemic to these cultures. It's also a thing in the Arabic world, where people often take on aliases they consider to be more descriptive of themselves