Long story short: I screwed up an import from phpBB. :facepalm: Well okay, that’s not the full story. The import itself worked flawlessly! And at this point let me shout out to the whole team for creating an awesome piece of software (from a users point of view, an admins point of view and a devs …

User.update_all("email = replace(email, 'nonce', '')")

Worked like a charme! Thank you, Falco! :slight_smile:

[image] Raku: only to find out admins can’t edit emails Yes, they can-- edit it like a user would, from the profile settings.

[quote=“codinghorror, post:4, topic:51687, full:true”]edit it like a user would, from the profile settings. [/quote] Oh my… it seems we really overlooked this! :badpokerface: We impersonated each and every user and changed it there. Will Discourse send out a mail asking for verification of the a…

[image] Falco: User.update_all(“email = replace(email, ‘nonce’, ‘’)”) I’m trying something similar, but getting a readonly error. How do I get around it? This is not a production instance, so it’s OK if I screw up. User.update_all("email = replace(email, '@', '@invalid_email')") ActiveRecord…

Emails have moved to a separate table called user_emails (behind the scenes, users now can have multiple email addresses), so this command will have to be rewritten. This may work: UserEmail.update_all("email = replace(email, 'nonce', '')") …or it might set fire to the database. :fire: You’ve be…

No fire! :crazy_face: Thanks Felix!

Mass-edit email of all users

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codinghorror (Jeff Atwood) October 18, 2016, 11:59pm 4

Yes, they can-- edit it like a user would, from the profile settings.

As an Admin, how to change user's Primary Email or add Secondary Emails when 'email editable' is off?

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Mass-edit email of all users

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