Is your Gmail account on Risk?
Gmail is biggest mail service provider company under the banner of Google with 1.3 Billion users around the world. The Only service provider who offering 1 GB free space to store the data for each Gmail address. Gmail found and established in second quarter of 2004 and with the power of Google it becomes largest mail provider in 2020 and it's competitors went beyond the scenes.
What is Email and who invented it?
It is interesting to know that the abbreviation Email stands for Electronic mail which sent from a device direct to another device. Email invented by Ray Tomlinson in 1971 when he succeeded to send an hello massage on other device. Then the first registered email company was BITNET who started its MCI mail service in 1983.
Joint venture of Jack from USA and an Indian person created Hotmail in 1996 which is an well established commercial service provider and now shaped in Outlook.com under MSN search engine. Then Yahoo bring a small layer of revolution in 2000 but snubs down quickly and staying under dust. Later each company which has around 500 employee bought its own domain and gives to the employees for communication within the company with their own name like @GM.com , @nadec.com , @Tesla.com etc.
Now comes to our topic that why your Gmail account on Risk?
According the announcement of Ruth Krichell , Vice president of Gmail, on May 16 , All the Inactive Gmail addresses will be deleted permanently starting from December of this year. This process has been started from January this year when first warning flash out by Gmail admins. If you are using your account regularly and you signed in once it last 12 month, then you should not be panic because your account is safe and secure. Stay happy with it and keeping emailing freely.
Which accounts will be deleted.
Account which is not signed in for last 24 months.
Account which not used to install any app.
Account which not used for store, back up photos on drive.
Account which not used for YouTube or Instagram play back.
Account which not used for location search, mapping and Google meets.
How we can Save our account?
If you have only one Gmail address and in use for last months then fine but if you have multiple Gmail accounts for different purposes then look back for your all accounts and signed in each one again to make sure your account is Safe.
Download any app from Google play store.
Watch any YouTube video on any channel.
Use Twitter to do any tweets.
Send a mail to your friends.
Use Google photos, back up drive, maps or meet to keep active your Gmail account.
All inactive accounts will be deleted permanently from Gmail servers from December 2023.
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Amjad
Thanks for the recommendation, I thought I just had to log in. But, I see there are other options.
I have almost 15 Gmail accounts. Each one for storage, and that sort of thing. Since I have several projects, I need different accounts. And keeping them alive is pretty important to me.