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Re:Help Locked out of 10 years Gmail account by danillonunes on Saturday December 24, 2022 @09:06AM (#34116892)
I believe the major problem is having your email attached to a big tech general account. If your son decides to download a pirated game to your iphone, out whatever other unrelated minor offense, and Apple determine it's worth nuking your entire account, your email is gone. Granted, Google is worse at this matters, and when you own the domain at least you can point it to somewhere else, but it's still a hassle.
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Re:Help Locked out of 10 years Gmail account by hacym on Saturday December 24, 2022 @09:23AM (#34117024)
Does Apple have a history of doing that? This is the first time I’ve heard of that.
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Re:Help Locked out of 10 years Gmail account by shepherdjerred on Saturday December 24, 2022 @12:45PM (#34119112)
No
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Re:Help Locked out of 10 years Gmail account by yumraj on Saturday December 24, 2022 @02:18PM (#34120140)
Even if that happens, it’s not a problem.

Why?

You go to your register and point your domain to another email provider, and you’re back in business.

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Re:Help Locked out of 10 years Gmail account by rwalle on Saturday December 24, 2022 @05:45PM (#34121929)
Not a problem?

All your previous emails are lost, aren't they? Even you have local backup of them somehow, they are not equivalent to emails saved to your server?

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Re:Help Locked out of 10 years Gmail account by xuki on Saturday December 24, 2022 @06:11PM (#34122138)
If you have a local back up and the provider supports IMAP, you can just sync it back to the new provider.
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Re:Help Locked out of 10 years Gmail account by edmundsauto on Saturday December 24, 2022 @07:04PM (#34122562)
Losing backups is problematic, but IMO the bigger issue is losing access. I care 10x more about emails that I haven't received yet, compared to my history. I am still not wanting to lose that history... but it is just not as big a deal.
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Re:Help Locked out of 10 years Gmail account by nephanth on Saturday December 24, 2022 @07:47PM (#34122856)
If you're using an email client, chances are you have an offline copy of your emails (depending on how you configured it)
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Re:Help Locked out of 10 years Gmail account by yumraj on Sunday December 25, 2022 @05:36AM (#34125992)
The only way to cover that case is run your own mail server.

I've done that in the past, don't recommend it unless you have a real need and know what you're doing. It wasn't hard, but just extra work that I wasn't sure was worth it.

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