User email addresses API
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You can manage user email addresses by using the REST API.
List your email addresses
Get a list of your email addresses.
Prerequisites:
- You must be authenticated.
This endpoint does not return the primary email address, but issue 25077 proposes to change this behavior.
GET /user/emails
Example response:
[
{
"id": 1,
"email": "email@example.com",
"confirmed_at" : "2021-03-26T19:07:56.248Z"
},
{
"id": 3,
"email": "email2@example.com",
"confirmed_at" : null
}
]
List email addresses for a user
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Get a list of a specified user's emails.
Prerequisites:
- You must be an administrator.
This endpoint does not return the primary email address, but issue 25077 proposes to change this behavior.
GET /users/:id/emails
Supported attributes:
Attribute | Type | Required | Description |
---|---|---|---|
id |
integer | yes | ID of specified user |
Get a single email address
Get a single email address.
GET /user/emails/:email_id
Supported attributes:
Attribute | Type | Required | Description |
---|---|---|---|
email_id |
integer | yes | Email ID |
Example response:
{
"id": 1,
"email": "email@example.com",
"confirmed_at" : "2021-03-26T19:07:56.248Z"
}
Add an email address
Creates a new email owned by the authenticated user.
POST /user/emails
Supported attributes:
Attribute | Type | Required | Description |
---|---|---|---|
email |
string | yes | Email address |
{
"id": 4,
"email": "email@example.com",
"confirmed_at" : "2021-03-26T19:07:56.248Z"
}
Returns a created email with status 201 Created
on success. If an
error occurs a 400 Bad Request
is returned with a message explaining the error:
{
"message": {
"email": [
"has already been taken"
]
}
}
Add an email address for a user
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Create a new email address owned by the specified user.
Prerequisites:
- You must be an administrator.
POST /users/:id/emails
Supported attributes:
Attribute | Type | Required | Description |
---|---|---|---|
id |
string | yes | ID of specified user |
email |
string | yes | Email address |
skip_confirmation |
boolean | no | Skip confirmation and assume email is verified - true or false (default) |
Delete one of your email addresses
Delete one of your email addresses, other than your primary email address.
Prerequisites:
- You must be authenticated.
If the deleted email address is used for any user emails, those user emails are sent to the primary email address instead.
Because of known issue, group notifications are still sent to the deleted email address.
DELETE /user/emails/:email_id
Supported attributes:
Attribute | Type | Required | Description |
---|---|---|---|
email_id |
integer | yes | Email ID |
Returns:
-
204 No Content
if the operation was successful. -
404
if the resource was not found.
Delete an email address for a user
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Delete an email address for a user.
Prerequisites:
- You must be an administrator.
Deletes an email address of a specified user. You cannot delete a primary email address.
DELETE /users/:id/emails/:email_id
Supported attributes:
Attribute | Type | Required | Description |
---|---|---|---|
id |
integer | yes | ID of specified user |
email_id |
integer | yes | Email ID |