As with many others, I suppose, I have various email address come and go: perhaps via job changes, or graduating/changing schools, deciding to sell a domain, or any of a host of other reasons.
There’s a problem with that, though: when those changes happen, sometimes access to other digital resources becomes…difficult. For example, I have an old (now unused) merchant credit account that I opened about 7 years ago. For reasons I cannot now recall, I linked that account’s digital updates to my school email address. Problem: I graduated school Dec of 06, and my account ceased to exist sometime after that.
Woops.
And the password reset goes to that email address.
Double woops.
So the question now becomes – how do you ensure that when you switch email addresses, you don’t lose anything “important”?
It’s a problem I have yet to solve – any thoughts?