Email Autoresponder Free

Main Menu

  • Home
  • Email accounts
  • Email marketing
  • Email newsletter
  • Email verifier

Email Autoresponder Free

Header Banner

Email Autoresponder Free

  • Home
  • Email accounts
  • Email marketing
  • Email newsletter
  • Email verifier
Email accounts
Home›Email accounts›Privacy fix: find and destroy old email accounts

Privacy fix: find and destroy old email accounts

By Michael E. McChristian
June 4, 2019
0
0

“One of the main strategies I use to keep myself safe is to limit the number of things I have to pay attention to,” Guido explains.

The best way to do this? Delete any unused account. An inactive email account is a security hole you don’t need. In fact, finding and deleting all the old accounts you don’t use, from social media profiles to photo sharing sites, is one of the easiest ways to protect your privacy and security.

Deleting accounts on major services like Google, Yahoo, or AOL is usually straightforward, although you may have to wade through several settings pages to find the kill switch. If you don’t know how to do this, contact an administrator. Try messaging “admin” on your email domain name if all else fails.

If you don’t want to delete the account, take a few steps to give yourself a privacy boost. Some of the advice provided by security professionals is the same you’ll hear for every online account.

“Be sure to use a unique password for each service,” says Gendre. A password manager can make this project easier. If you don’t reuse passwords, you are not vulnerable to password stuffing.

Enabling two-factor authentication is also a critical step if that’s an option. With two-factor authentication, the services will send you a verification code, via text or app, to confirm your identity when someone tries to access your account from a location, device or from an unverified browser. This means that a password alone will not be enough to allow a criminal to log in.

Another strategy is to “devalue” the account to lessen the impact if something goes wrong. Guido recommends downloading all your old emails and clearing cloud data. This way, your personal information will not be available to online malefactors.

Similarly, you should separate old email addresses that you want to keep, but don’t check regularly, from any other service. If you are not monitoring an old inbox, you should not use it as a backup to reset the password of other important accounts.

“These assets need to be totally separate and isolated,” says Guido. “You want your digital life to be as simple as possible.”

Categories

  • Email accounts
  • Email marketing
  • Email newsletter

Recent Posts

  • How to start an email newsletter
  • Email Marketing and Marketing Automation: The Differences Explained
  • 4 Ways to Use Video in Your Email Marketing Campaigns
  • 5 Best ConvertKit Alternatives for Email Marketing Campaigns
  • Here’s why email marketing is (still) important in 2022

Archives

  • May 2022
  • April 2022
  • March 2022
  • February 2022
  • January 2022
  • December 2021
  • November 2021
  • October 2021
  • September 2021
  • August 2021
  • July 2021
  • June 2021
  • May 2021
  • April 2021
  • March 2021
  • February 2021
  • January 2021
  • September 2020
  • June 2020
  • May 2020
  • December 2019
  • July 2019
  • June 2019
  • May 2019
  • April 2019
  • December 2018
  • November 2018
  • October 2018
  • September 2018
  • August 2018
  • July 2018
  • June 2018
  • March 2018
  • January 2018
  • September 2017
  • November 2016
  • July 2016
  • October 2015
  • April 2015
  • July 2014
  • March 2014
  • June 2013
  • September 2011
  • July 2011
  • Privacy Policy
  • Terms and Conditions