# How to change the admin email
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-change-the-admin-email/280603
**Category:** Support
**Tags:** email
**Created:** [September 30, 2023, 9:52am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-change-the-admin-email/280603 "2023-09-30T09:52:25Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Elena\_me](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Elena_me)
#### Post date: [September 30, 2023, 9:52am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-change-the-admin-email/280603/1 "2023-09-30T09:52:25Z")
Hello!
I face with a problem and I need your help.
How to change the admin email the one that you entered while installing Discourse?
Thank you!
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### Author:  [@Jagster](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Jagster)
#### Post date: [September 30, 2023, 10:17am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-change-the-admin-email/280603/2 "2023-09-30T10:17:33Z")
Is the old one still valid? If yes then change admin’s email normally via user settings.
But maybe you would like to open a bit what kind of issues you are trying to solve out. Because perhaps the right answer is totally different than changing email.
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### Author:  [@Elena\_me](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Elena_me)
#### Post date: [September 30, 2023, 11:28am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-change-the-admin-email/280603/3 "2023-09-30T11:28:00Z")
Hello Jakke!
Yes, the old one is valid. I am admin and the email that i am asking about is one that I type while entering the discourse on the hello page.
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### Author:  [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)
#### Post date: [September 30, 2023, 12:14pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-change-the-admin-email/280603/4 "2023-09-30T12:14:25Z")
Do you mean the one your enter when you ran discourse-setup? If so, you’ll run it again.
If you mean one you enter in the ux in your browser you can change it and it’ll send you an email to make sure it’s you.
If you’re hosted, then you might contact email team, as your address is on systems outside of your discourse instance.
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### Author:  [@Elena\_me](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Elena_me)
#### Post date: [September 30, 2023, 12:54pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-change-the-admin-email/280603/6 "2023-09-30T12:54:02Z")
How can I change email in this situation? On the welcome page.
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### Author:  [@Jagster](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Jagster)
#### Post date: [September 30, 2023, 2:43pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-change-the-admin-email/280603/8 "2023-09-30T14:43:56Z")
Do you know how to find your own personal user account after login?
Click your avatar and then user icon:
Open preferences:
You are at your account and there you can change your email. AFAIK that is a bit different thing than changing kind of systemwide admin email via `discourse-setup`, though. Well, I have tendency to be wrong every now and then :squinting_face_with_tongue:
Or am I missing something obvious now?
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### Author:  [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)
#### Post date: [September 30, 2023, 6:00pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-change-the-admin-email/280603/9 "2023-09-30T18:00:15Z")
> [@Elena\_me](#):
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> On the welcome page.
Does that mean that you just installed Discourse for the first time and you’re trying to set up the initial admin account? You haven’t ever even logged in yet?
If that’s the case, then you want to change the `DISCOURSE_DEVELOPER_EMAILS` in your `app.yml`. The easiest way to do that is to run `./discourse-setup` again.
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### Author:  [@Elena\_me](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Elena_me)
#### Post date: [October 1, 2023, 1:26pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-change-the-admin-email/280603/10 "2023-10-01T13:26:59Z")
Hello!
Thank you very much! I use this email while logging as an admin.Forum works well. Now i would like to change old email.
I am afraid that this ./discourse-setup destroy the forum. Will it?
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### Author:  [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)
#### Post date: [October 1, 2023, 6:55pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-change-the-admin-email/280603/11 "2023-10-01T18:55:04Z")
> [@Elena\_me](#):
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> Now i would like to change old email.
Have you tried to do so and had a problem? If you still have access to the old address, then you should have no problems.
> [@Elena\_me](#):
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> I am afraid that this ./discourse-setup destroy the forum. Will it?
No.
And changing the developer email address will affect only accounts that use those email addresses; it will not change the email address of your, or any other account in Discourse.
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### Author:  [@Elena\_me](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Elena_me)
#### Post date: [October 1, 2023, 7:27pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-change-the-admin-email/280603/12 "2023-10-01T19:27:55Z")
> [@Elena\_me](#):
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> ./discourse-setup
Hello!
Could you please assist me with commands
When i type ./discourse-setup in Terminal it says “-bash: ./discourse-setup: No such file or directory”
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### Author:  [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)
#### Post date: [October 1, 2023, 7:33pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-change-the-admin-email/280603/13 "2023-10-01T19:33:43Z")
```plaintext
cd /var/discourse
./discourse-setup
```
Again, this will NOT change the email address associated with your existing Discourse account. It will only make whatever email address you change it to be an admin and be able to see the mini profiler.
If you want to change your email address, go to /my/profile and change it.
If you’re using SSO then you’ll need to change it there and not in Discourse.
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### Author:  [@Elena\_me](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Elena_me)
#### Post date: [October 2, 2023, 12:29pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-change-the-admin-email/280603/14 "2023-10-02T12:29:41Z")
Hello, Jay!
Thank you very much for your sincere desire to help me. I guess i have problem with an explanation.
I would like to change email on the welcome page.
And as far as I am an admin this email uses for some technical support. It appears on the Contacts of the forum.
I have attached the picture to show you what email i would like to change.
The first line is an email.
Thank you in advance.
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### Author:  [@darkpixlz](https://meta.discourse.org/u/darkpixlz)
#### Post date: [October 2, 2023, 1:21pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-change-the-admin-email/280603/15 "2023-10-02T13:21:37Z")
If I remember, then the about page will display the first email in the developer emails setting.
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### Author:  [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)
#### Post date: [October 2, 2023, 3:10pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-change-the-admin-email/280603/16 "2023-10-02T15:10:38Z")
> [@Elena\_me](#):
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> guess i have problem with an explanation.
That seems clear.
That’s not a welcome page. It’s the login page.
Are you referring to this field?
There is no email address printed there, just a field where you enter **your** email address or your username. Other users will enter their email address there, but I expect that most users enter their username and not their email address.
Do you want to change the email address connected to your admin account? The email address where Discourse sends you notifications? Then you do that from your user profile. (But you can also log in on that page without an email address, but only the username and password.)
Do you want to change the social logins on the right?
> [@darkpixlz](#):
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> the about page will display the first email in the developer emails setting.
I don’t think that’s the intention as the screen shot shows the login page. Right?
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### Author:  [@darkpixlz](https://meta.discourse.org/u/darkpixlz)
#### Post date: [October 2, 2023, 3:11pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-change-the-admin-email/280603/17 "2023-10-02T15:11:41Z")
> [@pfaffman](#):
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> I don’t think that’s the intention as the screen shot shows the login page. Right?
I might have misunderstood the post, I understood it as “how can I change the email on /about”
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### Author:  [@Elena\_me](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Elena_me)
#### Post date: [October 3, 2023, 9:25am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-change-the-admin-email/280603/18 "2023-10-03T09:25:54Z")
> [@pfaffman](#):
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> Then you do that from your user profile.
Thank you. Could you please make a screenshot of that option. I mean where i can change it. Because near my email there is no “edit” option.
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### Author:  [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)
#### Post date: [October 3, 2023, 10:04am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-change-the-admin-email/280603/19 "2023-10-03T10:04:18Z")
Are you using sso? If so, you must change your address where you log in, not in discourse.
See [Discourse Meta - The Official Support Forum for Discourse](https://meta.discourse.org/my/preferences/account)
Can you share the url of your forum?
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### Author:  [@Elena\_me](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Elena_me)
#### Post date: [October 3, 2023, 3:09pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-change-the-admin-email/280603/20 "2023-10-03T15:09:56Z")
Thank you!
Due to all respect on my forum there is no option to edit the email address that i use on log in page.
I use SSO, could you please help me to change it via SSO?
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### Author:  [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)
#### Post date: [October 3, 2023, 3:22pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-change-the-admin-email/280603/21 "2023-10-03T15:22:40Z")
Sorry. You have the regular login screen, not SSO.
Maybe you need to check the site setting `email editable`.
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### Author:  [@Elena\_me](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Elena_me)
#### Post date: [October 5, 2023, 7:36pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-change-the-admin-email/280603/22 "2023-10-05T19:36:29Z")
Jay, Hello!
I checked email editable. I cant change it.
Maybe this time you could try to help me.
The email i would like to change is also used for notifications of new users’ posts on the forum.
It means that it used by the whole system.
How can I change it?
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