[info]greenwitch in [info]07refugees

Deleting old LJ e-mail addresses

Of interest to those who no longer have control of a) the original address on their LJ accounts, b) those who have hotmail addresses associated with their LJ accounts that they no longer control...

It appears that you can now remove those addresses.

FYI, and get on that, folks.

(I had *three* addresses I no longer controlled on there, which are thankfully gone now. Apparently in 2002-2004 I was quite the web-based e-mail whore.)

ETA: It doesn't appear to be available to everyone, and as noted in comments below, this *does* leave open another huge security hole. So, I suppose, if you're able to remove inaccessible e-mail addresses from your account, do it while you can because the change might be rolled back.
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Posted on Mar. 5th, 2009 at 07:11 pm | | Leave a comment | Add to Memories | Tell a Friend

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[info]sherlock

I wouldn't mind if LJ allowed one to set one of the emails as unremovable after removing the registering account, do you know if that is the case?

Haha, and now you have me creeped out because I went to see if my oldest hotmail email had been reregistered and it has! Disturbing.
Posted on Mar. 5th, 2009 09:22 pm (UTC) | | Parent | Thread | Reply

[info]greenwitch

I wouldn't mind that either, and I have no idea. It should be something you would set up manually with support or something, as should have been removal of old e-mail addresses. But of course, eljay is eljay and eljay is stupid.

Yeah, seriously. I knew mine had been because I sent a test e-mail to it once and the person actually wrote back, LOL (okay, maybe they were dumb but still). But the yahoo address I registered the LJ account with -- no idea what happened to that one, all I know is that I couldn't access it. So I'm very glad to have those taken off my account because they were out of my control, whereas the other methods of accessing my account -- the three e-mail addresses I left on there, secret question, etc. I'm comfortable enough with that.

But oh yes, I will do backups.
Posted on Mar. 5th, 2009 09:26 pm (UTC) | | Parent | Reply