I went thought this change as well in recent years, from an ISP account to Gmail.  I had to make the change for over a hundred accounts.  WIth few acceptions, I was able to go to the profile and change email, sometimes adding the new, making it primary, then deleting the old.  The few exceptions were accounts for transactions that were completed and the profiles were locked down.

I do recall having to re-subscribe to this list with the new and unsubscribe the old account.  I recall thinking that was a bit quirky.

I just logged into the RIPE portal and see that the email field is not editable.  That should be fixed.  One shouldn’t have to open a new account, transfer everything over, and then close the old account.  Even banks get this right! 

<soapbox> I’d discourage using email as the account key as most people don’t own their email address (like me, Google owns it).  Email is unique, but it isn’t an identity, just a pointer into a (email) database.</soapbox>

On Aug 26, 2024, at 7:08 AM, Micha Bailey <michabailey@gmail.com> wrote:

It was a while ago (at least a couple years), but I’ve definitely changed my RIPE login email address before. It should be possible unless that option was specifically removed.

On Mon, Aug 26, 2024 at 2:56 AM Sulev-Madis Silber via ripe-atlas <ripe-atlas@ripe.net> wrote:
it's noneditable field without any edit or save buttons


funnily i found it has been an issue 11y ago:

https://www.ripe.net/ripe/mail/archives/ripe-atlas/2013-November/001162.html

and later elsewhere:

https://www.ripe.net/ripe/mail/archives/db-wg/2017-October/005654.html


there the replies from @ripe.net also say i can do it. but i can't? can any of you can?

i also found some audit issues being mentioned but in the end they said you can do it. i can't recall ever being seen any mail edit sections there. it won't help me if there once was a way. now it's grey and readonly

would be fun if accounts have limits on them

anyway, i can't google out any reasons why this is not allowed. people only mention issues shuffling mails around. i don't want to do this. i also don't want to change it back, ever



On August 26, 2024 1:04:01 AM GMT+03:00, Fearghas Mckay <fearghas@gmail.com> wrote:
> Go to https://access.ripe.net/profile
>
>Your RIPE ATLAS login is your NCC login - you should be able to make the
>change there.
>
>f
>
>On Aug 25, 2024 at 17:04:36, Sulev-Madis Silber via ripe-atlas <
>ripe-atlas@ripe.net> wrote:
>
>> i noticed i can't change my account mail address. unsure why we have such
>> limitation here. i have mail i used for 25 years, or literally more than
>> half of my entire lifetime, and now i want to change it. reason being it's
>> ispmail i had since dialup. and they sold it. now i still have access to it
>> but service sucks, despite expensive. a very good reason to change it. yet
>> ripe seems to have account mail is permanent policy for no reason at all. i
>> expect this to change after more updates. there was huge ui update but this
>> feature is not coming. why? most of things allow me to change mail. with
>> only handful of services insisting it being for life. i don't know if next
>> one is lifetime long but at least now it's my own domain. hoping to change
>> it. or at least given reason why i can't
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