You weren't receiving email before because your email got banned/disabled, and now you'll still not be receiving email. Nothing is lost. The forum account isn't banned or anything.
I want to get a clear scenario from you theymos, if email is been ban or got disabled and the user of the bitcointalk account have not noticed for long period that his email is not in function and a hacker has penetrate to his bitcointalk account and succeeded hacking the user account, can the person retrieve it's account through the management of the forum while it has not sign a message with its receiving address of the first earn for the forum??