• subtext@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    I hate that it’s not possible to change your email address easily (or even at all) with some services. Tell me your website backend sucks without telling me your website backend sucks.

    The crazy thing is it’s not even banking or finance websites that are ass backwards (as you would expect), it’s other random sites that just for whatever reason don’t have a proper account management.

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      11 months ago

      When you use the email as the account id.

      Tell me you outsourced your application without telling me you outsourced your application

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      11 months ago

      This is why you should use your own domain. If you want to change who’s handling your email, you just change your DNS MX record to a new, different host and all your mail ends up there instead. The services don’t have to know a single thing about what’s going on - the next time they send an email out, DNS will simply resolve to the new mail server.

      Here is an example of how you would do it with Proton

      • subtext@lemmy.world
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        11 months ago

        I do this now, but I’m still stuck with a few errant accounts that still use my gmail from high school / college.