Swap primary/secondary email accounts

I lost my husband last year and swapped everything over into my name. Everything else has been changed but his email addy is still the primary and I don't know the password.
Can our emails be swapped around?  I've spent ages looking on the helpsite and have been going round and round in circles on the phone.  Please help.
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kay6lar wrote:
Hello, Can someone help me with a similar issue please?  I would like to change the primary email (which is never used) with a sub-account email which I use every day.
You could just set the primary account to forward messages the secondary one. Then you would only have to access the primary if you wanted to make changes to your account.
But if there's a compelling reason to delete the primary, ask the mods via the link given above.
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