I am looking for a free email service with a long expiration/inactivity time limit.

transitionality · 29 Nov 2015, 04:49 AM

Ideally, there would be no expiration/inactivity limit at all.

I plan to use this account as a recovery address for another email address, so it will receive no other email except potential recovery messages. In other words, it can have very little storage space (just one megabyte is fine!) and no other features are needed.

Please advise.

Just Bill · 29 Nov 2015, 07:35 AM

Try Yandex.

Tsunami · 29 Nov 2015, 11:40 PM

Not sure what Yandex"s inactivity limit is, but another forum user coincidencally had a similar question. See this topic for some advice from other forum users.

n5bb · 30 Nov 2015, 03:25 AM

The Yandex email expiration period is 24 months according to their TOS: https://yandex.com/legal/rules/

Quote:

2.9.1. A mailbox at Yandex.Mail is deleted if the User does not use it for over 24 months.

I don't recommend using an account you rarely or never use for receiving such reset messages. The service can send you service messages you never see and might even go out of business (which has happened many times for free email accounts with no good revenue stream). It's much safer to use a paid email account or a free account you use regularly.

Also remember that this forum is spidered by Google and other search engines. So be sure you use a unique username and a long and unique password which isn't related to passwords at any other service you use or anything we can read about you at this or other online services. The most important account you must protect better than any other (and which much be more reliable than any other account) is where your reset messages are received. Just because you never use the backup email account doesn't guarantee that someone attempting to steal access to your other accounts doesn't get access to the email account.

Bill

Tsunami · 30 Nov 2015, 07:22 AM

I think Yandex has enough revenue stream to guarantee they'll be around for a long time, and they seem to receive good comments on this forum. An inactivity limit of 24 months is amazing, that means signing in 1x per 2 years is sufficient to keep your account active

Regardless whether the mailbox you want to open is for actively emailing friends and family on regular basis, or a mailbox you just check once every couple of months (for example just to register accounts with, purchase online with, or to forward emails to and use the mailbox as a backup of your important mails) ... Use a provider likely to be around for the long haul. And the less frequent you intend on checking the account (if you intend to check your account just once per 3 months for example because it's a backup account to store emails you forwarded to it, or an account you use only for registrations and purchases... then be sure it's a service that will be around for the long term so that you don't have to worry about the service ceasing existance ... If you use a less secure provider and sign in only once a few months, you may not even notice the service is down or gone out of business before you want to sign in again)

In a way, the bigger the player, the better for such purposes: Gmail, Yahoo, Hotmail/Outlook but also the likes of Zoho, Yandex, Mail.ru, ... should be quite assuring as they are very unlikely going to cease operations.

29 Nov 2015, 04:49 AM	#1
transitionality Member Join Date: Jun 2014 Posts: 30	I am looking for a free email service with a long expiration/inactivity time limit. Ideally, there would be no expiration/inactivity limit at all. I plan to use this account as a recovery address for another email address, so it will receive no other email except potential recovery messages. In other words, it can have very little storage space (just one megabyte is fine!) and no other features are needed. Please advise.

29 Nov 2015, 07:35 AM	#2
Just Bill Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2013 Posts: 192	Try Yandex.

29 Nov 2015, 11:40 PM	#3
Tsunami The "e" in e-mail Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: in between the bright lights and the far unlit unknown Posts: 2,341	Not sure what Yandex"s inactivity limit is, but another forum user coincidencally had a similar question. See this topic for some advice from other forum users.

30 Nov 2015, 07:22 AM	#5
Tsunami The "e" in e-mail Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: in between the bright lights and the far unlit unknown Posts: 2,341	I think Yandex has enough revenue stream to guarantee they'll be around for a long time, and they seem to receive good comments on this forum. An inactivity limit of 24 months is amazing, that means signing in 1x per 2 years is sufficient to keep your account active Regardless whether the mailbox you want to open is for actively emailing friends and family on regular basis, or a mailbox you just check once every couple of months (for example just to register accounts with, purchase online with, or to forward emails to and use the mailbox as a backup of your important mails) ... Use a provider likely to be around for the long haul. And the less frequent you intend on checking the account (if you intend to check your account just once per 3 months for example because it's a backup account to store emails you forwarded to it, or an account you use only for registrations and purchases... then be sure it's a service that will be around for the long term so that you don't have to worry about the service ceasing existance ... If you use a less secure provider and sign in only once a few months, you may not even notice the service is down or gone out of business before you want to sign in again) In a way, the bigger the player, the better for such purposes: Gmail, Yahoo, Hotmail/Outlook but also the likes of Zoho, Yandex, Mail.ru, ... should be quite assuring as they are very unlikely going to cease operations.