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Old 05-02-2025, 08:39 AM
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Originally Posted by Pugchief View Post
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.
I had an SNET e-mail I got before SBC and then AT&T bought the company out. I used it for many years. Until we all got notice from AT&T that they were discontinuing all SNET.net e-mail accounts.

It's gone forever. Glad we were given enough notice to forward out e-mails to another service, and thankful I already had a few other e-mail addresses available to forward them to.

But I use mostly gmail now. It's easy to use, it syncronizes with all my other apps and calendars, I can have multiple e-mail addresses including anonymous e-mails that are linked to my main, OR completely different ones, each with a different account. And I can see them all at the same time, or one at a time, simply by accessing the GMail app on my phone or computer.