YaBB Development & Mods - Backup e-mail address idea

xnoddyx Global Moderator Offline I Love YaBB! Posts: 31 Location: UK:Scotland/Livingston Joined: Feb 18^th, 2014 Gender: Zodiac sign:	Re: Backup e-mail address idea Reply #1 - Aug 25^th, 2014 at 1:59pm	Mark & Quote Quote
	Batchman wrote on Aug 16^th, 2014 at 6:51pm: You know, now and then e-mail accounts do glitch, and quit working for a bit. Most the time it is only for a few minutes or a couple of hours, then whatever the problem is with the mail server gets fixed, and things are back to normal. But I have lost access to an e-mail for a couple of weeks at least once before (the fellow who runs my web host was in the hospital for a time, and was not able to get the problem with the server fixed for a couple of weeks) and it can make it very hard to get in and do anything that requires being sent an e-mail. And since you frequently have to have a message sent to your old e-mail to verify that you want to change to a new e-mail address .... What about allowing a user to include a second e-mail as a back-up. It would be checked the same way the first one was, but when asking for an e-mail to be sent, one could click a check box or something, asking to use the back-up e-mail address. If the user had not provided a back-up e-mail address, then the check box would not appear, of course. Just an idea ... what does anybody else think? sounds good to me

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Batchman Full Member Offline I Love YaBB! Posts: 165 Location: Somewhere just East of Crazy Joined: Jul 25^th, 2014 Gender: Mood: Depressed Zodiac sign:	Backup e-mail address idea Aug 16^th, 2014 at 6:51pm	Mark & Quote Quote
	You know, now and then e-mail accounts do glitch, and quit working for a bit. Most the time it is only for a few minutes or a couple of hours, then whatever the problem is with the mail server gets fixed, and things are back to normal. But I have lost access to an e-mail for a couple of weeks at least once before (the fellow who runs my web host was in the hospital for a time, and was not able to get the problem with the server fixed for a couple of weeks) and it can make it very hard to get in and do anything that requires being sent an e-mail. And since you frequently have to have a message sent to your old e-mail to verify that you want to change to a new e-mail address .... What about allowing a user to include a second e-mail as a back-up. It would be checked the same way the first one was, but when asking for an e-mail to be sent, one could click a check box or something, asking to use the back-up e-mail address. If the user had not provided a back-up e-mail address, then the check box would not appear, of course. Just an idea ... what does anybody else think?

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