Users changing their email address
 

I got a message from a user today saying that they put their email in wrong and they can't change it to get the activation code for their account.

Can she or do i need to get a mod?

Just have them send you a regular email to your administrator and update them manually. Then they / you can update their email account in the "user control panel".

You can also just delete their account and have them re-register.

Did I miss something? :)

no, i am just wondering how many people do this and then realise they want to use the site, go the change their email and can't and then just leave

I doubt many people are daft enough to type their e-mail wrong, and then retype it wrong again in exactly the same way.

Quite possible for a person who suffers from dyslexia..

I know i've been on some forums where i've registered and cant post without email activation. But used another email account instead so i don't get junk mail.

Many reasons why

Yeah, well, and what do you propose vB should do if you deliberately cheat the system? If you use an e-mail you can't access, you can't change your e-mail, that's the way it is and that is the way it is supposed to be. If you want to allow cheating, then just disable e-mail authentication.

lol, no :p

Thats not at all what im suggesting lol

i am suggesting that there be some way a user who is trying to cheat the system, realises they can't and decides to change that email address to their actual one so they 'can' authenticate their email lol

Not making light of your situation, that is really what contacting the administrator is for. One thing I do on my forum's (although I cannot tell you off hand on how I did it, but it wasn't difficult) is if they had a partial registration where we could not register them, we lock them down into a registration confirmation forum, where a two-way private dialog can be established. Actually, now that I think about it, there is a MOD out there to do something similar, although I have never tried it.

I have probably seen 10 or more times where a user has typed the wrong email in twice. So you are right, it does happen. I am just not going to worry about it too much. :)