Lost email address ?

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Lost email address ?

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For any forum owners here, what do you when a user loses their email address and wants to start using a new email address in connection with your forum please?

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They change their email address in the user profile account section of course.
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Yep, but verification initially goes to the original email address first, of course.

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Change the email address for them in the ACP?

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Thanks Mess, but from a security point of view, that's not good, is it?

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That depends on what you mean by security point of view.

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In PHPBB3, you would need access to the original email, before you can start using the new one, this is for security reasons, so if I circumvented that system, it would be negating the security a little.

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I don't think that really matters if you're the administrator. There are many other things one can do to someone's account besides changing the email address.
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But if they don't have access to their original email address, how can they link a new email address to the forums?

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As has already been said, talk to the forum administrator who will change it for you via the ACP. It happens all the time. There is a Contact Us form in 3.1 that facilitates this.
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