So what is the point of a recovery email? Shouldn't my recovery email be secret?
Gmail – If someone hacked into the Gmail account, wouldn’t that let them go in and change the recovery email all together
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Best Answer
The purpose of a recovery email is not to retake an account that was broken into. As Google documents: