# How can I automatically confirm a secondary email address?

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-can-i-automatically-confirm-a-secondary-email-address/300354>\
**Category:** Product Support\
**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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I’m not sure there is a way to automatically confirm through the UI/API. 🤔 I think if there’s SSO then the email/identity confirmation is handled by them? In which case using the sso\_sync would pull in the already confirmed data/email and use that as ‘trustworthy’.

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A little bit of fact-checking later… 🙂

The `/admin/users/sync_sso` is only for [DiscourseConnect](https://meta.discourse.org/t/13045?silent=true). I think you already knew that, but I’ll say it out loud for anyone reading this later.

But there’s also the `auth_overrides_emails` admin setting which may be useful for this.

Essentially, if your SAML provider is sending a verified email, and `auth_overrides_emails` is set, Discourse will start using the new email without any confirmation being emailed out. 👍

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