How do I change the email address to verify?

[Meer_kitten]

When I signed up for Win Messenger, I used a email address
that is now unavailable as the server itself is down. I
cannot connect to it, so cannot "verify" my account. How
do I change this so that I can actually verify my account?

[Jonathan Kay [MVP]]

Greetings,

You'll need to change your Passport e-mail address then. To do so, first, you need to save
your contact list (they'll be deleted if you don't). Sign into Messenger using your current
Passport, click the File menu and then select Save Contact List. The default filename should
be fine, and just save it on your Desktop. If you don't yet have a contact list, you can
skip this. Go to the Desktop and verify that the file was created.

If you do have contacts, you'll want to delete them off your main contact list (after you've
saved them), so that they can remove the "wrong" address off their lists completely. Just
right-click each contact, and choose Delete.

Then, go to:
http://memberservices.passport.com/memberservice.srf and select 'Edit my .NET Passport
profile' and then under your current e-mail address click 'I want to change this', and enter
the new address.

Then, sign-in to your new Passport in Messenger (your new verification e-mail should be
arriving shortly). Then, click the File menu, then select Import Contacts from a Saved File,
then locate the file you just saved on your desktop and select it. Your contacts will be
readded, and they'll all need to add the new name to their list.
____________________________________________
Jonathan Kay
Windows MVP, Messenger
Associate Expert
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone/
Messenger Resources - http://messenger.jonathankay.com

"Meer_kitten" > wrote in message
...
> When I signed up for Win Messenger, I used a email address
> that is now unavailable as the server itself is down. I
> cannot connect to it, so cannot "verify" my account. How
> do I change this so that I can actually verify my account?