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Sometimes you want that email address to forward somewhere because you used it for years. Maybe Google should consider allowing a permanent email forward and th
by lambda_obrien 6y ago
Sometimes you want that email address to forward somewhere because you used it for years. Maybe Google should consider allowing a permanent email forward and then more people could delete that gmail account they don't use.
- laumars 6y agoForwarding still costs Google bandwidth and storage. It’s also not a great long term solution for yourself as you’re introducing more moving parts into your content delivery that can fail. Really it should be seen as a short term strategy for deprecating old addresses rather than a solution that runs indefinitely. And that’s just good practice irrespective of Google’s retention policy.