So i had this gmail ID that i once felt was uber-cool and not anymore. So i decided to move on to another gmail account , with a proper name. I had some 28 filters and 33 labels in my old gmail account . So here is how i went about it :
First enable labs in gmail , and then the filter import, export lab. Export all your gmail labels , import into your new account using the same gmail lab feature.
Unsubscribe from all the google-groups and all other mailing lists. When you click show details on an email , there is a chance that you will find:
unsubscribe — Unsubscribe from this mailing-list
Clicking on it will auto-send the unsubscribe message to the list. Once you’ve unsubscribed from all of those , go ahead and subscribe using your new account.
However , do not unsubscribe in case you were a manager in google groups — you will be unsubscribed and no more a manager :(
Export all your contacts to google CSV , import it from other account.
Set all forwards from your various gmail/email addresses to your new accounts.
The worst part is buzz , which i am wondering how to migrate.
Now there is another tough part of managing chats , i can’t add all these contacts to chat as it will send them all the gmail invitations , and sending gmail invitation to a mailing list is a stupidity i’ve done earlier and don’t want to repeat.
So that was a test post for learning to type and to test if i could post to posterous from my new mail Id too.