Description of the need
When a user changes their email address, Backdrop should send an email with a unique link to the user with the new email address so that the user is required to confirm the change.
Inspired by https://www.drupal.org/project/drupal/issues/85494
This is the patch that would be the closest to what will work here: https://www.drupal.org/project/drupal/issues/85494#comment-450598.
In reading the drupal.org comments, this change should not allow someone to change both the password and the email address at the same time. And there should ideally be a way to keep sending notifications to the original email address until the change is confirmed.
Recent comments
Thanks! The site was on PHP 7.0. With assistance from my hosting provider, I updated to PHP 7.4 and now I have access to the site again. No database re-import required.
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Thank you very much. I will follow your advice.
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The best you can do is test and report. If you find a contrib that doesn't work in php 8.3, create an issue in its queue so it gets fixed. In my experience, I've found that 7.4 is safest...
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