Google doesn't recycle Gmail addresses. For anyone moving to paid email providers thinking they'd be a lot better, there are some paid providers who are very qu

Google doesn't recycle Gmail addresses. For anyone moving to paid email providers thinking they'd be a lot better, there are some paid providers who are very quick to recycle addresses on their domains: Fastmail, Posteo and Mailbox.org recycle email addresses on their domains within a few months, thus increasing the vulnerability of their current customers (where you delete one of the aliases on your account) and past customers. There may be many others too, but these are the ones I know of.