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This feature is developed by ayaka-notes/ayakaleaf-pro and is available from v6.4.0.
An account can have more than one email. Add one when an address will be taken away, such as a university’s after you graduate, so that you keep your account and your projects. The list of emails appears when your instance can send email. Otherwise the settings page has a single email field.
1

Open your emails

Click Account, then Account settings. Your emails are under Emails and affiliations.
The Emails and affiliations section with one primary email and the link Add another email

Your emails

2

Add the new email

Click Add another email, type the address and click Add new email.
The form with a new address and the button Add new email

Adding an email

3

Enter the code

A 6-digit code is sent to the new address. Enter it and click Confirm. If nothing arrives, click Resend confirmation code.
The form Confirm your email address asking for the 6-digit code

Confirming the new email

The email is now in your list, and your primary email gets a message that it was added.
The list with the primary email and the new email with a Make primary button

The new email in the list

4

Make it your primary email

Click Make primary next to the new email, then Change primary email.
The dialog Confirm primary email change with the button Change primary email

Confirming the change

From now on, log in with the new email. The old one stays in the list.
The list with the new email as primary and the old email below it

The new primary email

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What each email can do

  • Only the primary email logs in and gets password resets. A secondary email does neither, so an address that is later given to someone else cannot take over your account.
  • Press Make primary before the old mailbox closes. Afterwards only an administrator can change your email.
  • An old primary email that you confirmed stays as a secondary email. One that was never confirmed is removed when another email becomes primary.
  • To remove a secondary email, click its trash icon. Another account can then add that address.
  • An address that belongs to another account cannot be added.
  • On an instance with LDAP or SAML login you can add emails, but Make primary is refused, because you could no longer log in with the new email.
Last modified on November 11, 2026