I’d like the system to try secondary email address if the first keeps bouncing. Is this possible? if not, what is the purpose of the secondary email address in Discourse?

Do you mean when a forum doesn`t use email for topics, then secondary email is totally useless and it can’t be used as OP asked, even not for secondary login purposes? If so then it is more or less just noise for users (yeah, I know — secondary ones are there if used SSO options as Microsoft, Googl…

[image] Andrew Bernard: what is the purpose of the secondary email address in Discourse? The initial discussion about this is here: Two emails for one user . It continued here: Additional email address per user account support . I think it was mainly implemented to deal with posting to Discour…

[image] simon: When an external auth provider is used for logging into Discourse, users can be found from their secondary email address based on the email address that’s provided by the auth provider. This is important so that if main e-mail fails, an administrator or mod could then attempt t…

[image] anon65426961: This is important so that if main e-mail fails, an administrator or mod could then attempt to contact account holder manually with secondary e-mail? It definitely adds a bit of flexibility. The case of a user loosing access to the email address they used to create their …

Yeah, that can be difficult to authenticate someone claiming to have an account but doesn’t have access to main e-mail or remember password. I put in second e-mail for my account here that uses different servers so hopefully if there is a problem with main one the other will work.

What is the purpose of a secondary email address

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omarfilip October 7, 2023, 3:50am 2

When a user replies to a Discourse post via email from the secondary address, the message gets posted instead of rejected due to unknown user.

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What is the purpose of a secondary email address

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