The proposal was to not allow you to change your e-mail address unless you can enter your old (current) e-mail correctly; making your e-mail address a bit like a second password.

A problem with this is that it needs to address the unlikely situation of someone not remembering what their old e-mail address was. Or, more likely, when someone enters their e-mail address incorrectly and doesn't notice and so can never change their e-mail address again.

This is the same reason why I haven't made it so you have to enter your old password in order to change your password.

Perhaps you should be required to enter at least two of your password, e-mail address, and "real name" in order to be able to change (or see) any of them?

And it'd be nice if we had a solution for the "I forgot my password and I no longer have that e-mail address" problem.

At least we no longer output the password in the HTML when you edit your home node.

- tye        

In reply to Re^2: Email security for monks? by tye
in thread Email security for monks? by DigitalKitty

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