Deciding what to import from google
I'm trying to break off from my 20 year old Gmail address that is largely just too many promos, newsletters, and spam. I'm making the switch to Fastmail since it seems right up my alley and I already use 1password, so I can integrate the email masking into that.
I started up the transfer and it immediately asked me if I want to import over a hundred thousand emails, and I honestly couldn't decide. There's definitely important stuff in there but there is also a ton of spam. I'm not planning to completely shutter my Google account, but I want to be much less reliant on it.
Similarly, it asked me if I wanted to have Fastmail start receiving email sent to that email address. That sounds nice if an old friend reaches out but that will just leave me where I currently am, getting tons of spam.
I also know my contacts have tons of dupes and people I haven't talked to in over a decade.
So I guess my questions are,
if you moved over from a very old Google email, did you bring *everything* over with you? Did you import all your emails?
is it worth having Fastmail pick up emails from my old address and trying to whittle down the spam from there?
any general advice if you've done something similar?
Thanks all!