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Changing upwards of 200 logins to use a new email address may be troublesome. Do you keep a list?
by bencollier49 5y ago
Changing upwards of 200 logins to use a new email address may be troublesome. Do you keep a list?
- anamexis 5y agoWhen I switched away from Gmail, I used my password manager to track the logins I needed to change. Then, just monitored the Gmail inbox for anything I missed.
- mkbkn 5y agoFirst, I saved every login on Bitwarden and then used that to visit every website and changed login email info there and re-saved on Bitwarden. The effort is only one time or one day at max. And the rewards are worth the time.
- beached_whale 5y agoThere's another catch, many services use the email address as an immutable identifier that cannot be changed. For some that doesn't matter, but at the very least it is a lot of time/effort.
- kroltan 5y agoA lot of those can be solved by contacting the support of that service. Services that don't allow you to change emails are usually on the smaller side and so you might actually get a response.
- fs111 5y agoYes, my password manager
- kroltan 5y agoUnlike sibling commenters, I used to not use a password manager. (But do now!) I just keep the old GMail for now, and whenever I receive a valid email there, I visit the sender website to update it. This depends on you remembering your "low-volume important accounts" like government websites you visit once a year, but otherwise, I would not cry if my imgur account got lost or something eventually.
- blackboxlogic 5y agoWould be nice for companies to maintain a standard account management API which password managers could call. Imagine buttons on your password manager: "Set All Emails..." and "Randomize All Passwords..." I didn't find any such standard after a quick search. Edit: Looks like LastPass does it with a screen scraper https://support.logmeininc.com/lastpass/help/how-do-i-update-site-passwords-using-auto-change https://support.logmeininc.com/lastpass/help/how-do-i-update...