Is there a way to change a user’s email address using the API without triggering a confirmation email? Our users are actually members of our association and when they submit an email address change directly to staff, the staff member changes the contact’s record in our ERP system. Then the staff me…

[image] paully21: We don’t want to use SSO overrides email, because we have a handful of users that want a different Discourse notification than the main notifications from the association. I would say this is a self inflicted wound at that point?

Hey, Paul. I’m still happy to help on this, but Jeff makes a point. Just how will you know whether someone wants a different address? You’ll just change it via the API on ERP but let them change it in Discourse if they want to?

The idea would be, if the request is made to change the email address and the old address matches the ERP system AND Discourse, then change it in both. Additionally, they may have an online or paper form that asks if the email change should include Discourse. Another salient point here is: nearly a…

Worst case it’ll take a plug in. If I can’t do it, I’d fit a guy. If you want to give it a shot, search here for ‘reverse engineering’.

[image] paully21: We don’t want to use SSO overrides email, because we have a handful of users that want a different Discourse notification than the main notifications from the association. Discourse supports multiple email addresses per user now, does this address your original issue?

Change user's email address via API without confirmation

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codinghorror (Jeff Atwood) August 14, 2020, 11:47pm 7

Discourse supports multiple email addresses per user now, does this address your original issue?

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