Email Account & Provider Change Watch

Why this is recommended

An inactive account deletion that takes a decade of mail, an ISP that ends email service with 90 days to migrate, a filter change that sends the member's bank statements to spam, an Outlook app transition that breaks a workflow, or an AI feature reading mail by default with an opt-out are each worth the membership, and the notices are easy to miss.

What the Tab covers

Who it is for

Everyone with an email address, which is everyone, and especially the people with a 20-year-old Yahoo or ISP address that everything is tied to.

When it runs

Providers ship policy and feature changes mid-week and inactive account deletions run on set dates

Scope

Gmail and Google Workspace, Outlook, Hotmail and Microsoft 365, Yahoo Mail, AOL, iCloud Mail, Proton, Fastmail, Zoho, Tuta, Hey and Comcast, Spectrum, AT&T, Verizon, Cox, Frontier and ISP email; inactive account policies and deletion dates; spam filtering, DMARC, SPF and DKIM enforcement; classic Outlook, new Outlook, Apple Mail, Thunderbird and client changes; IMAP, POP, app passwords and OAuth changes; AI features and ads; outages; migration tools; ISP email shutdowns

Suggested task

The objective your Tab starts with. You can edit every line of it once the Tab is yours.

Policy, feature, storage and pricing changes at Gmail, Outlook and Hotmail, Yahoo, AOL, iCloud Mail, Proton, Fastmail, Zoho and the ISP email providers, inactive account deletion deadlines and how to keep an address, spam filter and sender authentication changes that bounce legitimate mail, app and client changes including the end of classic Outlook and Mail app transitions, IMAP, POP and third-party app access changes, AI summary and ad feature changes with opt-outs, outages over an hour, email migration tools and ISP email shutdowns when carriers drop the service, with the provider first and the deadline or step in the title.

Track consumer email providers for US users. Report only confirmed, source-backed items from the last 7 days: policy, feature, storage and pricing changes at Gmail, Outlook and Hotmail, Yahoo Mail, AOL, iCloud Mail, Proton, Fastmail, Zoho, Tuta and Hey; inactive account deletion policies and dates with how to keep an address; spam filter, DMARC, SPF and DKIM enforcement changes that affect delivery of legitimate mail; app and client changes including classic Outlook retirement, new Outlook, Apple Mail and Thunderbird releases that change workflows; IMAP, POP, app password and third-party access changes; AI summary, drafting and ad feature changes with opt-out steps; outages over one hour; email migration tool launches and changes; and ISP email service shutdowns and transitions at Comcast, Spectrum, AT&T, Verizon, Cox and Frontier. Prefer provider announcements and help pages, status pages, ISP notices and established tech reporting; ignore unverified complaints. Put the provider first in the title with the deadline or the step to take. Use high severity for an inactive account deletion within 60 days, an ISP email shutdown, a filtering change bouncing common senders, or a client retirement date. Return no more than 6 findings. Push each as a finding with a title, a two-sentence summary, sections for what changed, who it affects, what to do, the deadline, and the source link. If nothing qualifies, push nothing and submit the run receipt.