Question: I am signed up on Stack Overflow using my own personal e-mail address, as I did not want to lose reputation and badges when moving from one job to the next. At my current job, it is strictly verboten to use web mail clients or access personal e-mail accounts, so I would like to add a second (work) e-mail address at which I can be notified when someone answers or comments on one of my questions, but I cannot find any way to do that.

If anyone can point me in the right direction or tell me if this is possible, I would greatly appreciate it.

Answer: 
Yes, you can ask a question even if you don't have a compelling need to know the answer right now. This, by itself, doesn't automatically make the question inappropriate.

That said, it is a bit of a red flag. To your statement:

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This is quite a bit more concerning. It's a sign that the question is likely to be Too Broad. Questions on SO need to be specific and quite narrow in scope. Questions shouldn't be just throwing out some topic and trying to spark a large discussion about it.

Even if you don't need to know the answer to this particular question, it should be reasonable for someone else to be in the same situation, and to have a specific answer to that specific question that can be answered by any answers to this question.
Yes and No.

Yes, it's OK to ask a question that is on topic and can draw good and helpful answers, since the main focus of Stack Exchange sites is the content.

No, it's not OK to just ignore all the answers that might come.

At the very least, you should:

1. Indicate in the question itself that you're not asking this for your personal gain and that you would not be able to judge given answers yourself. This can come in the end of the question in small text, e.g.

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2. Flag your own question asking to make it CW so that you won't gain reputation you don't really deserve as you won't put any further efforts into this.
3. At least review given answers to see if they somehow fit, edit bad grammar and syntax etc.