Good lesson of why no one should ever use their ISPs email as their primary.
To answer your question, it depends on the provider. I had an old sbcglobal email address when I had AT&T 20 years ago. I can still access that account with no issue, but other ISPs may have other policies.
Unless you know for sure your provider will let you access the email address indefinitely, my advice would be to get a new email with Gmail, Yahoo, MS, or whomever and log in to your ~30 most important accounts and notify them of the change before you fully switch. I've done this, and it's time consuming but not that bad.
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