# I entered the wrong admin email address during initial setup

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/i-entered-the-wrong-admin-email-address-during-initial-setup/74241>\
**Category:** Self-hosting\
**Created:** [15. November 2017 um 13:31 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/i-entered-the-wrong-admin-email-address-during-initial-setup/74241 "2017-11-15T13:31:39Z")\
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**Author:** ![Costas](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/costas/32/82263_2.png) [@Costas](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Costas)\
**Post date:** [17. November 2017 um 13:55 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/i-entered-the-wrong-admin-email-address-during-initial-setup/74241/29 "2017-11-17T13:55:37Z")

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> [@pfaffman](#):
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> then it’s fairly difficult if email isn’t working

no kidding 🙂

> [@pfaffman](#):
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> is that you cannot log in as some admin user you have created already, right?

Wrong. I can log in but I don’t get any email notifications because EE or an.other has blocked the email address.

Email works fine for other admin and regular users, just not main admin (me).

Must be a fix?

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