# Cannot remove secondary e-mail identical to primary e-mail through UI **URL:** \ **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")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 5
**Author:** ![koen360](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/koen360/32/194302_2.png) [@koen360](https://meta.discourse.org/u/koen360)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2021, 9:48pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cannot-remove-secondary-e-mail-identical-to-primary-e-mail-through-ui/175470/5 "2021-01-08T21:48:52Z")
Thanks so much, as it turned out I could only fetch one email ID for the duplicate ones. My guess is that the unconfirmed one that I couldn’t remove didn’t yet got listed with that ID? It is probably a bit in the air with an incomplete validation process? What I did to resolve was switch the primary to the 2 alternate e-mail address. The unconfirmed duplicate could still not be deleted but when I deleted the confirmed (now former-primary email) also the unconfirmed duplicate one got removed. Then added the original email address as a secondary and then switched it to be the primary. All sorted and learned a lot in the process 😉 --- _[View the full topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cannot-remove-secondary-e-mail-identical-to-primary-e-mail-through-ui/175470)._