by clem69 » May 22nd, 2016, 9:28 am
tanstaafl wrote:Click on the "user control panel" link in the upper right corner of this web page, the "profile" tab, and then "edit account settings".
Why does your email address change so frequently? See
https://www.pobox.com for an example of one possible solution.
Thanks. I went back into my account setup today and the email field was enabled. Yesterday it wasn't editable. I probably just wasn't being allowed to do certain things here until the phase of the moon changed, or something. (That kind of nonsense makes it hard when I'm trying to run through so many online accounts and update email addresses, credit cards, and so on. If I can't do it in one shot, I'd rather delete the account and move on. Instead I'm having to wait days for a series of confirmation emails... I have no idea what stage things are even at in 20 or 30 cases.)
The reason I have to do this periodically is because I usually use the free email provided by my ISP, and I'm on my fifth one. I also keep a Gmail account as a backup, but to be honest, I have major philosophical and practical problems with Google and use as little of their stuff as possible.
As for POBox, I don't know who they are, feel uncomfortable assuming they'll be around longer than my latest ISP, and can't see any reason to pay them for what Gmail probably does for free. My email needs are exceedingly simple.
[quote="tanstaafl"]Click on the "user control panel" link in the upper right corner of this web page, the "profile" tab, and then "edit account settings".
Why does your email address change so frequently? See https://www.pobox.com for an example of one possible solution.[/quote]
Thanks. I went back into my account setup today and the email field was enabled. Yesterday it wasn't editable. I probably just wasn't being allowed to do certain things here until the phase of the moon changed, or something. (That kind of nonsense makes it hard when I'm trying to run through so many online accounts and update email addresses, credit cards, and so on. If I can't do it in one shot, I'd rather delete the account and move on. Instead I'm having to wait days for a series of confirmation emails... I have no idea what stage things are even at in 20 or 30 cases.)
The reason I have to do this periodically is because I usually use the free email provided by my ISP, and I'm on my fifth one. I also keep a Gmail account as a backup, but to be honest, I have major philosophical and practical problems with Google and use as little of their stuff as possible.
As for POBox, I don't know who they are, feel uncomfortable assuming they'll be around longer than my latest ISP, and can't see any reason to pay them for what Gmail probably does for free. My email needs are exceedingly simple.