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by lawlit 5412 days ago
What if my email provider, let's call it @MySuperAwesomeEmailProvider.com just goes out of business and decided to stop the service. Then I can't answer to the emails you will "life-ping" me with. And I won't even be able to change my email address on your system because I would have lost my account password. And then the next day, I don't think I would be able to go out.
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You can just send us an email and prove that you own the account and we'll change your email for you, it's not that big a problem.
Do you have a policy for how users can _prove_ that they are who they're claiming to be ? Can you handle having _too_many_ users under the terms of that policy ?
The only proof we have is the email validation, but the service doesn't claim to actually be a will. It's more about emailing your friends or family one last time.

I don't understand the question about too many users, can you clarify?

if you are worried that your email provider will go out of service without notice, you should get a different email provider.
I'm worried with _all_ email providers
You should get your own domain, then you can move at will.