I made a serious error some 24 hours ago. I tried adding the Men's Shed's iCloud email account to the MyMail app on the iPod Touch. Something went horribly in the process and the account was locked "for security reasons."
To access the security questions on Apple's iforgot website I need a birthday but none of the ones I entered were accepted. I contacted Apple but they couldn't help either.
So that address had to be abandoned. All essential emails had been saved as attachments or in the Notes app anyway, so it wasn't that difficult to set up a new iCloud email account then inform all contacts of the new address.
But I had to come up with a new iTunes Store/App Store account and discovered that Apple no longer allows new usernames ending with @icloud.com! So I set up another Gmail account and used it to set up an App Store account. In the process of doing that I was then required to create in essence, a verified alias that did end in @icloud.com. Either the Gmail address or the verified alias can be used in App Store transactions. There were two apps that had to be repurchased, so I bought a $30 iTunes gift card at a 20% discount and was reimbursed by the Shed's Treasurer.
The new accounts are set up and working properly and I made sure to take a screenshot of the birthday and security questions and answers before uploading that to Dropbox.
The salvage was made easier because there weren't a lot of emails to deal with anyway.
I made a strong point of deleting the MyMail app from the iPod Touch.