Telus Mail to Gmail

I agree it is an annoying decision by Telus. They are essentially just cancelling the e-mail part of their service, and telling us to use GMail. If I wanted to use GMail I would have gone that way a long time ago. However, the real problem as you obviously have figured out is that your Telus e-mail address is used everywhere by all your contacts, and frequently as your ID in many sites. The conversion offered by Telus lets you keep your Telus e-mail, but after that it gets difficult. I use Thunderbird/Lightning and it did not like the G-Suite google account that Telus gave me. I did figure it out and have come up with a acceptable solution while maintaining my Telus e-mail. The nice part of Thunderbird is that it lets you retain the POP3 feature of keeping your e-mail on your computer as well as keeping it synced in both directions with a Google Account. Yes, you lose the security of only having e-mail on your computer, but you gain the convenience of having your mail and calendar available on your phone - if you consider that an advantage....