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Mozilla Persona & changing email addresses #6

Open unsay opened 11 years ago

unsay commented 11 years ago

Noted in https://github.com/unsay/vicini/pull/4#issuecomment-21803045 by @jdalt.

However I'm curious as to how we do authorization (like editing one's address) when persona only gives us an email address.

My take is Persona concerns itself only with authorization. We need to provide a way for users to set their notification preferences, quite possibly another email.

It does make for some non-traditional user experiences, though something we could mitigate by rolling into the announce/receive UI.

unsay commented 11 years ago

@callahad, how does Mozilla recommend managing updates to email addresses on app side? It seems as if the email addy is the username and as a primary, trustworthy for delivery.

Currently, a new email for the same person is a new account/user.

Is there a facility to migrate or merge auth? Curious how you've discovered this thus far.