Comment 4 for bug 1281
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| Stuart Bishop (stub) wrote Re: [Bug 1281] Need some way to merge accounts without emailaddress or with only dead ones | #4 |
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Guilherme Salgado wrote:
> One of the pre-conditions for users to merge accounts is that the "from
> account" (the one that's going to cease existing) can't have any email
> addresses. I think we should keep this for the admin interface, because
> if the "from account" has one or more dead email addresses, we don't
> want to move them to the other account.
I think the email addresses should just be moved over, either flagged as NEW
or OLD. Probably NEW for now, as I don't think users have a way of
reactivating OLD email addresses yet (?).
Alternatively, they could just be deleted.
> If we do this, to merge any account with dead email addresses will
> require someone with write access to the production database to go there
> and delete these dead email addresses. IMO, deleting these emails
> manually is not a big deal, and on the other hand it'll make it harder
> to cause harm by merging wrong user accounts.
In almost every case where we need to use this feature, this manual step
would need to be taken. I don't see any point keeping it manual when it
would be trivial to handle it automatically.
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