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Is there any way to discover a resident's email?


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Here's something you can do that might help.  My suggestion assumes that the account you have forgotten the password to has IM's set to be forwarded to email in preferences (it's the default setting for the official SL viewers).  Log in using this account (the one you are using to post your question here in Answers).  Search for the account you have lost the password for while in-world.  Send yourself an IM.  You'll get a message that the user is not online and the IM will be saved.........but, if the setting has not been changed that IM will also be sent to the email that is associated with your other account.  You said you can't remember which email you have for SL which implies you have several.  So, now close SL (if you want) and go each of those emails have and search for the IM you just sent to yourself..........the email account you received the IM will be the email you have associated with Second Life.  Of course, a couple things must be in place for this to work......first, as I already said, you must have "IM's to email" set in preferences and second, you have not closed the email account that you associated with SL back when you first started.  Hopefully, both those assumptions on my part are correct.

Now here's the third suggestion and it may sound a little harsh.  Abandon that account all together since it's going to be a very involved ordeal to get LL to give you a password for the account you forgot.....that policy is in place for very valid security reasons (if you will think about it you'll understand the why).  LL won't just give you either the account password or the email.  As Rolig said you're going to have to jump through many difficult hoops to convince LL that you are the real owner of the account and not someone else........it's almost impossible to do such a thing on the Internet (your chances for success are very slim).  Starting over is easier and really not so bad........it's a chance to start fresh with the advantage of already knowing what pitfalls to avoid that you didn't know about when you first started.  One of those pitfalls is treating your password and the email you have associated with SL with respect........write that stuff down and put in a safe, secure place (not some file on your computer).  A card index file kept in a safe place in your house is good..........I know, that's so 1980's but it's extremely reliable and so handy when things like this pop up (which happens often to many people).  If you really value your SL account, then I would think you would treat it that way.......respect it, guard it, and enjoy it.

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