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Google is 'gradually rolling out' option to change your gmail.com address

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Re: Google is 'gradually rolling out' option to change your gmail.com address

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Post by markdown »

bigstrat2003 wrote: post #103
9dev wrote: post #50

Oh, finally. I’m one of the first.last@gmail folks, which I assumed would never change when I was 13 years old (hah!). Fast forward a few years, I got married, and am stuck with my old name in the address.

I have a first.last email, but it's created quite the interesting situation. Turns out some dude in Australia has the same first+last name as me, and he's been using firstlast@gmail.com. As far as I can find from Google's documentation, the email with no dots should be the primary and the one with dots an alias, but I'm guessing because I registered mine ages ago (back in 2006) it takes precedence. I have no idea how…

Oh god I have this problem with my firstlast@outlook.com address. I have a common english name so get the emails of other people from all over the world. The worst are subscriptions and regular invoices.

I had to give up using the address.

Re: Google is 'gradually rolling out' option to change your gmail.com address

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Post by globular-toast »

firefax wrote: post #7

I wish they'd let me recover my original -- I lost my TOTP generator, and the codes I'd written down in a paper notebook were rejected. I even hunted down the electronic copy in case there was a transcription error -- seemed like some failure in their systems was causing me to lose access despite having followed proper procedures. Lost a decade and a half of correspondence dating back to my teenage years. I had impor…

> I will never use their services again, I was really digusted by this failure

Was there ever really an agreement that they'd be storing your cherished memories for decades? I still treat email the same way I've done since the 90s. Your email provider is just a cache but you download and backup the messages yourself.

Hopefully this has been a wake up call for you. If you care about data then you need a copy that you control and have a good backup plan.

Re: Google is 'gradually rolling out' option to change your gmail.com address

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Post by gkbrk »

bobsmooth wrote: post #72
xchip wrote: post #45

gmail sucks, I'm getting 2-3 spam emails a day, am I the only one?

I wouldn't know, I don't look at my spam folder.

Gmail spam filtering is poor enough that a lot of obvious spam reaches the inbox as well. The quality of the spam filter alone is a good enough reason to move off gmail.

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Post by jopsen »

thiht wrote: post #168
firefax wrote: post #7

I wish they'd let me recover my original -- I lost my TOTP generator, and the codes I'd written down in a paper notebook were rejected. I even hunted down the electronic copy in case there was a transcription error -- seemed like some failure in their systems was causing me to lose access despite having followed proper procedures. Lost a decade and a half of correspondence dating back to my teenage years. I had impor…

I had the same issue with my Hotmail address. I know the address and password, but Microsoft won’t let me login. And they ask ridiculous things like, what emails are in the inbox. I haven’t used this address for 20 years, I just want to access the Hotmail address from when I was a teenager.

Send some emails to the address, then you'll know what is in the inbox :)

Re: Google is 'gradually rolling out' option to change your gmail.com address

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Post by jopsen »

jonway wrote: post #146
xeonmc wrote: post #79

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Or just write down the TOTP seed on paper backups instead of backup codes.

Works for google (should!) but man there are some platforms that don’t expose the Totp code, or let you redisplay it! Sometimes they make you remove the old one before you can make a new one, too.

Few, but screenshot the qr code and print it out.

Even Facebook supports totp it's just well hidden.

Re: Google is 'gradually rolling out' option to change your gmail.com address

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Post by rr808 »

firefax wrote: post #7

I wish they'd let me recover my original -- I lost my TOTP generator, and the codes I'd written down in a paper notebook were rejected. I even hunted down the electronic copy in case there was a transcription error -- seemed like some failure in their systems was causing me to lose access despite having followed proper procedures. Lost a decade and a half of correspondence dating back to my teenage years. I had impor…

Wait a second - if you have gsuite it isn't a regular gmail account. Did you talk to gsuite team? If you even paid there is real support.

Re: Google is 'gradually rolling out' option to change your gmail.com address

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Post by dijit »

markdown wrote: post #170
Beijinger wrote: post #143

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Gmail is a throwaway email. I lost my SIM and hence can't log in anymore. Never ever rely on Gmail.

Huh? Are phone numbers tied to physical sims in your country? You can't just ask the phone company to give you a new sim with the same number?

If you’re on a contract that can work.

If it’s a PAYG sim card then you’re out of luck without the PUK code, which, if you’ve lost the sim then you have most assuredly lost (or never had).

PAYG is a lot more common in parts of western Europe than contracts.

People associate contracts with “overly expensive” phone deals.

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