Comment 4 for bug 1281

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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