My Eclipse email address is now dead

My computer was shifted to Outlook Exchange yesterday with the result that this morning I have had to re-input all my email account passwords to get at my email.

I knew most of the passwords but the more important ones I have very complex passwords for and rely on accessing my domain accounts directly to recover them. I have been able to do this for my personal domains – this one, kierenmccarthy.co.uk, for example – and I have tracked down the others. But one has been lost.

I haven’t used Eclipse as an ISP since I left Oxford in October last year, although my email account – kieren@kierenmccarthy.eclipse.co.uk – was still running and a number of friends continue to use it. While the account is still live, Eclipse has killed my access to their website so I can’t recover the password. It was a purposefully complex one as well. So, the upshot is that I am killing it off. By my rough estimates, this is the sixth email address I have killed off. Not including those like university and work email addresses that are ended for you when you leave.

I would say that I will keep “kierenmccarthy.co.uk” for a very long time into the future, so if people want to be certain of getting me, then kieren [at] that domain is going to be best long-term way forward. So sayonara Eclipse.