I am totally ready to go through all my Internet based connections, personal, financial and otherwise, and provide each one with the necessary new Emil address(es) when the time comes. Yes, it will require some work and patience but in my view Verizon screwed its long time Internet service customers when it dumped them into AOL with no provision with AOL to continue the tech support Verizon had provided at no additional separate monthly charge & I do not like things that AOL does and hate having to ever see their Leftwing “news” pages everytime it becomes necessary to have to go to their stupid web pages for some reason.
Yes indeed! My thoughts for the last couple of years...
Had to give up Thunderbird...
Have Proton, but have never gotten it configured properly...
“I am totally ready to go through all my Internet based connections, personal, financial and otherwise, and provide each one with the necessary new Emil address(es) when the time comes.”
no need ... keep your old email service for a while and have it forward email to your new email address and at the same time send an auto-response email back to all senders that explains they should use your new email address in the future, that feature is called a “vacation” response, but it can be used for any purpose ...
also, POP is obsolete, instead you want to switch tbird to using IMAP, like POP, IMAP can load physical copies of your received emails to your PC plus maintain copies on the email server, but IMAP also will keep all devices you might use for email synchronized to the server ...