Re:Ask HN: What should I use for “recovery email” for main p...
by jlokier on Monday September 25, 2023 @07:44AM
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For Gmail's recovery mail I use an address on my own domain, but for the domain's registrar I use an email at Yahoo! (mail.yahoo.com).
Yahoo! hasn't been without problems. I was annoyed when they deleted the inbox of users who hadn't logged in for a long time, with no way to recover the messages. That's quite bad if you're using it as your regular mail or as a long term archive. But as a rarely used location to get transient mails, the mail interface is ok and my account is still there after more than 20 years. Like Gmail, it's possible to fetch the contents over POP3/IMAP.
Yahoo! hasn't been without problems. I was annoyed when they deleted the inbox of users who hadn't logged in for a long time, with no way to recover the messages. That's quite bad if you're using it as your regular mail or as a long term archive. But as a rarely used location to get transient mails, the mail interface is ok and my account is still there after more than 20 years. Like Gmail, it's possible to fetch the contents over POP3/IMAP.