On 16Jan2018 18:50, Paul Allen Newell <pnewell@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 01/16/2018 12:24 PM, Cameron Simpson wrote:
On 16Jan2018 20:28, Tim <ignored_mailbox@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Allegedly, on or about 15 January 2018, Paul Allen Newell sent:
Changing emails after 20+ years is madness ...
Too true. Having your own domain name means that you'll never *have*
to do that, it'd only be something you did if you *wanted* to.
I also went through this pain last year. My venerable cs@xxxxxxxxxx
address, which came from my first ISP, is now dead. They said "an
address for life" and this was, like your address, 20+ years ago.
Tim's reply never showed up ... who knows what happened. Gmail seems
to have some unexpected wrinkles as I've had other email not make it
... and/or I am still learning this new "smart email system"
GMail's search function might find it for you. Not sure if that will tell you
where it is kept though. And of course maybe they've lost it :-(
I keep my email local. I fetch with getmail, file with my own program, read
with mutt, send to the laptop's local postfix, which handles getting it
upstream (and queues it when I'm offline).
The thought of my own domain has crossed my mind. My old account was
supposed to outlive me so it seemed unnecessary. Right now the problem
is the actual move as opposed to where.
Still haven't figured out a way to change address since I am no longer
able to log into Fedora or make contact with someone to figure out why
my email and/or username is not recognized as "reset password" is failing for
me
At that point I'd bite the bullet and just join the list under your new
address. You'll get 2 copies for a while, but if GMail has any brains it will
show you only the one copy. (Though IIRC it doesn't coalesce the same
message-id.)
Cheers,
Cameron Simpson <cs@xxxxxxxxxx> (formerly cs@xxxxxxxxxx)
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