I'm just going to repeat something I've just remembered that I heard recently which might be useful to someone. I read somewhere in a HN comment that someone w

I'm just going to repeat something I've just remembered that I heard recently which might be useful to someone. I read somewhere in a HN comment that someone was able to restore access to a Google account which they were locked out of because they already had all email forwarding from the locked account to another account. One of the options Google offered for unlocking access to an account was having access to email from that same account, which seems ludicrous to me, but in this case worked for that person. As well as setting recovery email addresses, it might be worth turning on forwarding to that recovery email, and a rule in the recovery account to automatically send those emails to trash.