# How can I automatically confirm a secondary email address?

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**Created:** [March 21, 2024, 1:25pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-can-i-automatically-confirm-a-secondary-email-address/300354 "2024-03-21T13:25:41Z")\
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Hmmm. 🤔 I think I was maybe working on the assumption that the move to the new IDP would have mapped them across based on an external id of some sort.

> [@Tris20](#):
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> I wonder if this still has the same issue in terms of confirmation, or are they assumed to be confirmed?

I think it is possible to activate/confirm the email through the rails console by adding in the token info too. Something like:

```ruby
old_domain = "<insert_here_the_old_domain>"
new_domain = "<insert_here_the_new_domain>"

users = UserEmail.where("email like '%" + old_domain + "'")

users.each do |user_email|
    user = User.find_by_id(user_email.user_id)
    user.email = user.email.gsub(old_domain, new_domain)
    user.email_tokens.create(email: user.email)
    user.activate
    user.save!
    puts "."
end

```

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