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So I’ve been meaning to for ages to start a fresh, I made a new passport address, it’s an address that isn’t @hotmail.com or whatever the standard ones are. It’s just a normal email address nothing to do with Microsoft. I signed up and it sent me an email to confirm it was me, I went thru that ok.
But now when I use it I can’t change my display name and it says (email address not verified) on the end of my addy instead of a display name. Whats gone wrong? Do I have to wait a while or something?
About Email Address not Verified:
This error happens when the email address in your .net passport has not been confirmed to belong to you. Maybe you ignored the email they send out with a link to verify your email address? This is, unfortunately, not easy to fix (there appears to be no easy way to get that email resent), but there is a way to sort it out:
The basic strategy we will follow is based on the observation that if we change the .NET Passport’s primary email address, we get resent the confirmation email. So, if you change the primary email address to something else, then change it back, you will be given the opportunity to verify your email address again.
There’s a caveat, however. Doing this may mess up MSN contacts in your contact list (though I didn’t have any trouble), so make a backup copy of your contactlist.xml file first, and if you’re really nervous, write down your friends’ Passport addresses first.
Here’s how to change your primary email address:
*Go to http://www.passport.net and log in with the passport you use for MSN Messenger.
*Navigate to “Member Services”, then choose “Edit my .NET Passport profile”
*Visit the link under your email address which says “I need to change this”
*Enter your new desired email address and your password, hit the submit button
*Wait for your confirmation email
*Visit the link in the email. Click the Continue button, then log in. The logging in stage is vital; your email address is not verified if you do not log in here.The first time through (changing your primary email address to something else) you don’t need to verify, and can ignore the last two steps.
If you don’t wanna try that though, there is a mod for Msn, L&H Messenger dope mod 1.11b and one of its features is that you won’t get the “email address not verified” next to your name.
You might wanna try it out, go to http://www.mess.be, click on search msn downloads and type the program title above.
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