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Old 03-15-2025, 10:49 AM
ElDiabloJoe ElDiabloJoe is offline
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Hate to be the bearer of bad writing on the wall, but it is not a surprise that old email accounts are going defunct. When is the last time yahoo, or earthlink, or concentric, or hotmail or aol were relevant on the consumer scene? These accounts will likely all go away.

My suggestion: Set up a new email account with a relevant contemporary email provider (like gmail or apple's me.com, etc.). Start using that with all new contacts or requests for your email address.

In the meantime, go into your current provider's settings (yahoo, whatever) or google it to find out how to have all emails forwarded to your new email provider. Over time, either ask people to update their contact info with your new email address or take this opportunity to purge out regularly received spam email.

Sorry for the bad news, but this is the cost of adaptation to stay current.
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