Just wanted to report that when I changed my email address I never received the email to reactivate the account. I use google mail which is very popular and I don't have a spam folder set so I get all emails.
I know a couple of things ...
1) email was off on the server up until a few days ago (truth is it was on but there was a config conflict between sendmail and postfix)
2) eman was playing with the mail queue
I just changed my email to my gmail account (mail queue is on) and I got the email on gmail and the link worked. I then changed the email again back to the original email, I also got that one and the link worked.
So it ATM seems to be working fine.
Sounds great thank you for looking into this.