How to find your inactive accounts via e-mail

For good reason, you may want to throw off the burden of accounts created in the past in dozens of the now unused services. In this very useful reality can help organic search on incoming e-mails.

In the wake of the general panic associated with a detected vulnerability Heartbleed, The problem of security of personal data rises sharply as ever. In general, it's time prosherstit all their accounts, change passwords for use, and dispose of abandoned.

Help in this case the good old mail, to be exact, integrated search for the letters and the content of the text.

The vast majority of services are arranged so that the newfound asking the user to confirm e-mail box you specified when you created your account. Statistically, we more often use foreign services, and letters from them come in English. If you look closely at the content of such certifying letters, almost 100% in each of them likely encountered the phrase «Confirm your email».

It remains only to search for the letters in the presence of this cherished phrases (in the first pass are looking for "Sonfirm your email» a phrase with quotes, the second pass - without the quotes). Mailer will give a handful of email adresses, containing the names of the services and your accounts to them.

How many of them used by you now? We are confident that readers Layfhakera carefully treat their passwords and have the opportunity at any time to learn them. Runs on all services, authorizing them, and then delete unnecessary accounts. Here is a general digital cleaning.