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Originally Posted by C. C. Rider
Yes, I had Comcast about 15 to 20 years ago. Then I decided to switch to Google (gmail.com) for my email. So now I have Gmail for my main email account which I use 99% of the time, and I still have my Comcast email account which I check on occasionally. In fact, I set it up so that any email that comes to my Comcast account is automatically forwarded to my Gmail account.
BTW, it's easy-peasey to notify everyone after you switch your email address. Simply write out one email explaining that you have a new email account and send it to "Send to ALL" on your Contacts List. That should take care of sending it to everyone in your email address list.
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I don't have a contacts list for e-mail. It keeps the spam down and eliminates any possible chance that my computer can be used by phishers to hack the contact list and send spam to everyone on it.
I only use my current comcast e-mail for my xfinity internet account. I use my old comcast e-mail for a small handful of things, which are easy to fix. All my store rewards accounts use a yahoo account, so if yahoo ever retires e-mail accounts, I won't care if those e-mails get lost, the rewards will still work.
Doctors, family e-mails, photos, businesses that I have actual accounts with (such as the pesticide guy) are all on a google account. My gaming stuff is split over two different google accounts. And I have a couple more for when a website requires that I submit an e-mail address in order to access the page.
I only have to keep track of two of those accounts; the rest, if the e-mail is retired, I don't have to care. That happened with my snet.net account; that WAS my primary e-mail for many years, since I worked for the phone company in the late 1990's into the 2000's. When they gave notice that they were retiring all snet e-mails, I went through the older in and out messages. Deleted everything I didn't care about. Then forwarded everything else to my main google account into a folder I created called "SNET EMAILS." That way I can reference them all whenever I need.
For the OP - you can keep your old e-mail until they retire the domain, as long as you use it every couple of months to keep it active. You can gradually use a more generic domain such as gmail.com or outlook.com that isn't tied to a specific internet service. That way you can change services every month, or have two different internet services in two different states, and all the e-mail will still go to one place.
The e-mail address you create for your internet service is simply a function of internet services. But you don't have to use it.