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by charcircuit 1106 days ago
No way. No legitimate business wants to give the owner of johnsmith@gmail.com the ability to hijack all of their brand accounts by hitting the reset password button. Even if you can change the email aftwards why take the risk of setting it up with a random person's account?
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Especially since you can setup a catch-all on some domain you own so "creation" of the email address is as simple as typing it into the registration form on the site you want to use it on.