I deleted my email account with a certain mail service. Now when changing email in preferences, it says to check the confirmation email sent to that address, now inaccessible. Even as the site administrator when changing the email I get the same message. What to do in this case? This must be a comm…

It needs to be done via the rails console, there’s a walkthrough here: [image] Can an admin change a user's email address? Support If you have access to the site’s rails console, you can change email addresses without triggering a confirmation email. Ent…

The other way to do this, if you hate Rails and there are multiple admins, is have the other admin take away your admin rights, then you change your address, then they give you admin back.

[image] Andro: Just one edit, you need two separate commands: Or you can do this in one line, as follows: docker exec -it app rails c This is how I generally run the rails console when I have a quick query to do or to check some object, etc. To make things easier, I have the following alia…

How to change user email if email account has been deleted

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Andro (Andrew Bernard) December 16, 2020, 12:59am 4

@awesomerobot thanks so much. Works well.

Just one edit, you need two separate commands:

# ./launcher enter app
# rails c

These were conflated in the post. Confused me for a while.

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