Account recovery without the original email

This started as a small annoyance and turned into a proper rabbit hole. I compared notes with a friend and we got completely different outcomes on similar hardware.

Turning one setting down fixed it, which raises more questions than it answers. Happy to be told I am overthinking it.

Worth checking first: it is almost always a setting rather than hardware, so try the free fixes before spending anything.

Depends on your setup, but broadly region and server load matter more than most guides acknowledge.