If Ben Schoon, writing for 9to5Google, is to be believed, it sounds like an option could be coming in the future that allows Gmail users to change their email address. I’m really thinking of it almost as an alias address creator or manager, based on the initial description of how this could supposedly work.
The TL:DR of it? You’d be allowed to change your email address three times for a total of four addresses; and those old addresses would continue to work as email aliases (would there be a way to delete or disable those?), meaning your email subscriptions would not have to be updated.
Email senders, how will this affect you? Not entirely clear; there could be more to this than meets the eye. But so far, it sounds like, if and when this functionality rolls out broadly, old addresses continue to deliver mail to the same people as they did prior to somebody updating their email address.
Old school email nerds like you and me, we already knew that we could create another Gmail address if/when we needed an updated address, and then configure the old Gmail account to forward any mail received to the new one. I've done this a bunch of times myself. But I do like the idea of being able to change my primary email address without having to go through all of the trouble, and so will all of your less tech savvy friends. (And email forwarding sucks; it's too brittle and problematic in this modern age.)
Stay tuned; I’ll keep an eye out for this option in my own Gmail account, and share my first hand experience with it, when the time comes.
If Ben Schoon, writing for 9to5Google, is to be believed, it sounds like an option could be coming in the future that allows Gmail users to change their email address. I’m really thinking of it almost as an alias address creator or manager, based on the initial description of how this could supposedly work.
The TL:DR of it? You’d be allowed to change your email address three times for a total of four addresses; and those old addresses would continue to work as email aliases (would there be a way to delete or disable those?), meaning your email subscriptions would not have to be updated.
Email senders, how will this affect you? Not entirely clear; there could be more to this than meets the eye. But so far, it sounds like, if and when this functionality rolls out broadly, old addresses continue to deliver mail to the same people as they did prior to somebody updating their email address.
Old school email nerds like you and me, we already knew that we could create another Gmail address if/when we needed an updated address, and then configure the old Gmail account to forward any mail received to the new one. I've done this a bunch of times myself. But I do like the idea of being able to change my primary email address without having to go through all of the trouble, and so will all of your less tech savvy friends. (And email forwarding sucks; it's too brittle and problematic in this modern age.)
Stay tuned; I’ll keep an eye out for this option in my own Gmail account, and share my first hand experience with it, when the time comes.
Read more: Google says it is ‘gradually rolling out’ option to change your @gmail.com address (Ben Schoon, 9to5Google)
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