We're making changes to the Community, so you may have received some notifications - thanks for your patience and welcome back. Learn more here.

Forum Discussion

CA_Lobo's avatar
CA_Lobo
Explorer | Level 3
9 months ago

Dropbox keeps claiming it can’t contact me at account email address

Over the past two weeks, I’ve started getting notifications from Dropbox claiming that it can’t contact me at my account’s email address and request that I update the account’s email as to not lose access to my Dropbox account.

 

Strangely, I can access the email account just fine, and the email account has not changed since November when the website SSL certificate ran out and needed to be renewed.

 

Does anyone know how Dropbox is checking the account email addresses? Best I can tell is they are doing something new and potentially buggy as this hasn’t happened before. 

  • Mark's avatar
    Mark
    Icon for Super User II rankSuper User II

    I've never seen such emails - and it seems strange that they are emailing you saying they cant email?!

     

    Are you sure its genuine ones? 

    • CA_Lobo's avatar
      CA_Lobo
      Explorer | Level 3

      Yes, I'm positive that the emails were from Dropbox. Unfortunately, I deleted the emails, and can't grab the headers to show you the originating server.  This (emails) has never happened before so I'm raising the issue to see if anyone else has the same problem.  FWIW, it is a basic - non paying account, and is limited to just community support....

       

      Also, I failed to mention that the same message as a notification appears in both the iOS version of Dropbox as well as the Mac OS version of Dropbox - images below with email address removed.

      • Hannah's avatar
        Hannah
        Icon for Dropbox Staff rankDropbox Staff

        Hey CA_Lobo, thanks for reaching out to us.

         

        If you go to your account settings here, do you see an option to update your email address?

         

        If so, try re-entering the one you already have, but if these notifications keep coming, let us know and we'll look further into this.

About Security and Permissions

Start a discussion in the Dropbox Community forum to get help with your account security and permissions. Find support from Community members.

Need more support

If you need more help you can view your support options (expected response time for an email or ticket is 24 hours), or contact us on X or Facebook.

For more info on available support options for your Dropbox plan, see this article.

If you found the answer to your question in this Community thread, please 'like' the post to say thanks and to let us know it was useful!