Email provider closing.

Robm1955

Years ago, when we first went on the internet, our ISP was Freeola. You could create numerous emails, of which I had two. One I used mainly, as I knew I would get spam, from competitions, etc. The other for the remainder. After we cancelled, with Freeola, we were allowed to still use these free email addresses. That, is changing, and this service is being closed down. I have some online services, which use these emails, as login, so need to change these. What I would like to know is, can I find out what services/sites are connected to these email accounts? Quit a few, I'm not particularly bothered about, but some, I want to keep, but how can I make sure I haven't missed any.

dan958

Not without searching through your emails to find account creation/confirmation emails (if one was ever sent out).
I'd recommend getting our own domain, so that way that way you will not lose that email address (as long as you continue to renew the domain)

Neil_Jones

Robm1955 said:

Years ago, when we first went on the internet, our ISP was Freeola. You could create numerous emails, of which I had two. One I used mainly, as I knew I would get spam, from competitions, etc. The other for the remainder. After we cancelled, with Freeola, we were allowed to still use these free email addresses. That, is changing, and this service is being closed down. I have some online services, which use these emails, as login, so need to change these. What I would like to know is, can I find out what services/sites are connected to these email accounts? Quit a few, I'm not particularly bothered about, but some, I want to keep, but how can I make sure I haven't missed any.

With very rare exceptions you don't need access to the email address itself to log into online services.  The only real need for them once you're joined is for important notifications and "forgot my password" notifications.  They won't stop working just because your email address has vanished.  If you forget your password it'll be a bit of a PITA to get back in.

Easiest solution would be going forward look at each online account you use as and when you make use of them and change your registered email address there and then, rather than trying to retro-guess where you were using it.  If it was the only email address you had its probably safe to assume everything you've signed up for uses that address.