# Cannot remove secondary e-mail identical to primary e-mail through UI

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**Category:** Support\
**Created:** [January 8, 2021, 10:08am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cannot-remove-secondary-e-mail-identical-to-primary-e-mail-through-ui/175470 "2021-01-08T10:08:03Z")\
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**Post date:** [January 8, 2021, 10:08am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cannot-remove-secondary-e-mail-identical-to-primary-e-mail-through-ui/175470/1 "2021-01-08T10:08:03Z")

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Hi somehow, don’t ask why I am currently in the situation where:

I as admin have three e-mails addresses listed:

Primary: the correct one  
Secondary: the same one but unconfirmed  
Third one: truly a secondary different address and confirmed.

Entering rails console I can lookup the user ID but don’t know how to list the multiple alternate e-mail addresses and strip one of them. Via the UI doesn’t work probably because the e-mail addresses are the same.

How can I correct this?

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