What if protonmail, gmail or whatever email provider you are using goes belly-up? Are all your accounts doomed?

If so, what are some preventive measures? Adding backup emails to your registered accounts?

  • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world
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    2 hours ago

    This happened to me.

    Hotmail was my email from 1997 until last year. I still know the password. But it wants me to do a security check. By sending a code to my backup email.

    Problem is, I haven’t logged into my backup email in forever. So it wants to send a security code to my hotmail account.

    You see the problem, right?