I highly recommend Proton Mail. It has a free and paid plans and you can also get a calendar, VPN, and secure cloud storage. www.proton.me
When I ditched Cox 5 years ago I had to abandon an email address that I had for over 20 years. It was my firstname.lastname which I could not get at any other provider. I went with Gmail so I could be independent of any internet provider. There is a way in gmail that you can import all of the email from your old address. I have cox emails going back for at least 10 years that show up when I search in gmail.
It's not the email address that Im concerned about its the bank accounts, forums, etc that all tied to that email address. For instance if I forget a password and have to do a reset it sends the link to that email. I have so many account tied to it now I know I would forget some and probably be locked out in that case.
Same here. That's why I've been proactively moving off of the Cox email and watching what comes trickling in every now and then. Banks, investment and CC companies are easy, not that many of them. Some accounts like PayPal that I don't use anymore I just close.
It was an effort to change what mattered, Cox allowed me access to the old email for several months after I ditched them. Haven't run into anything that actually mattered that I didn't get moved. I used password manager in the browser to help me see all of the different accounts.
I use Proton Mail, Proton Drive, Proton Pass.
AT&T went to Yahoo many years ago. I still have my swbell.com email
As ddriller said, AT&T switched a long time ago. Yahoo is the email provider for the “AT&T” email domain names. I still have and actually use my att.net address as my primary. I also have an alumni email address that changes to be serviced by gmail. The email addresses are the same but the processor is different.
My recommendation is to set up a secondary email on proton, hushmail or gmail and set that as your secondary recovery account every time you log in somewhere…. Then, the next time you log in switch the primary to whichever you want. I use a mix of account but really only use 3 general plus a secure one (proton mail - very highly recommended, and premium options are worth it if you want to pay)
My recommendation is to set up a secondary email on proton, hushmail or gmail and set that as your secondary recovery account every time you log in somewhere…. Then, the next time you log in switch the primary to whichever you want. I use a mix of account but really only use 3 general plus a secure one (proton mail - very highly recommended, and premium options are worth it if you want to pay)
Welcome to the Yahoo family . . . AT&T made the move years ago. Not that I even use the AT&T email account.
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