Email: recycle username?

[gtstricky]

270 days seems like a really short time. But I see no real issue with recycling an email name that has been inactive for like five years or something.

270 it is locked, 360 it is recycled.

They can have mine after I am dead. I won't need it.

 

[Southern Dad]

It is a bit concerning but I think it would be very difficult for someone to determine what emails they would try and get after the year. I'm sure someone like Bill Gates and Donald Trump have their own tech wizards keeping track of this.

 

[Primejimbo]

It is a bit concerning but I think it would be very difficult for someone to determine what emails they would try and get after the year. I'm sure someone like Bill Gates and Donald Trump have their own tech wizards keeping track of this.

I doubt they use gmail also.

I don't use my gmail anymore, but I'll log in once in a while too keep it.

 

[Southern Dad]

I doubt they use gmail also.

I don't use my gmail anymore, but I'll log in once in a while too keep it.

I'll bet Steve Jobs had an Apple email. Something tells me that won't be recycled.

 

[Primejimbo]

I'll bet Steve Jobs had an Apple email. Something tells me that won't be recycled.

He might have, but I doubt it was what we use.

 

[turtle777]

It is a bit concerning but I think it would be very difficult for someone to determine what emails they would try and get after the year. I'm sure someone like Bill Gates and Donald Trump have their own tech wizards keeping track of this.

You mean, they need someone to check their email, because by themselves, they would forget to check their email for 270 days ?

-t

 

[iBlazed]

Wow! This explains a lot! I created an outlook.com email address last year, it's just my first and last name @outlook.com. I was shocked this address was available because my name is EXTREMELY common. Almost as soon as I created this account I began receiving emails from Microsoft Business Partner Program about some tutorials that I (supposedly) signed up for, and they came from Microsoft's UK headquarters. Apparently my email used to belong to a Brit. I called Microsoft about these emails and confirmed they were legit and they said they would work it out. To this day, any spam email I get is British targeted spam. This explains it.

 

[Fzang]

Think of the possibilities of framing someone 😱

 

[Primejimbo]

The only soluti in that Yahoo has taken is add a button to report and email as of the old user... A very useful method.... :-(

But if you use the old email for amazon, facebook, spotify etc... There is a serious privacy risk because the new user can revolver the account linked with the old user email.

In addition there is a risk for the privacy of deceased people!!!!

You're not paying for the email service. If you want to avoid this issue, set you your own then that you control 100%

 

[stardozer13]

how do you get an apple email?

 

[Primejimbo]

how do you get an apple email?

If you have an iPhone or an iPad you can under the settings, then iCloud, then turn on the mail. It will ask you to make an @icloud email. You can do it on a Mac too, but not sure how.