We have a section on our website that allows users to manage their Discourse account preferences. Most of our users only use Discourse as a sort of mailing list, so we made it easy for them to manage that activity within their website account. I need to be able to modify the user’s email address vi…

Did you try: PUT https://meta.discourse.org/users/falco/preferences/email with email parameter?

[image] paully21: Does anyone know the URL of the endpoint to change a user’s email address (using the api key and api username method)? If you look at the routes.rb file you will see this line put "users/:username/preferences/email" => "users_email#update", constraints: {username: USERNAME_…

Looks like it send an e-mail for confirmation! Did you get one :e-mail: ?

It does send a confirmation…Ah…So it works and I had it correct. I guess I’m not going crazy. Now, is there a way to not send the confirmation and just confirm it straight away?

[image] paully21: Now, is there a way to not send the confirmation and just confirm it straight away? I don’t think so, unless you wanna mess without the api. But confirmations are good to stop typos!

Cool…Thanks for all the help! Paul

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paully21 (Paul Apostolos) March 14, 2016, 4:49pm 4

Yep…And I got a 200 OK, but it didn’t change the email address in Discourse.

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