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Reputation: 2587

Cannot verify Fake email in GitHub

I have created a GitHub account and, I do not like sharing my email address publicly (I'm sick of Spam), so I followed GitHub's Keeping Your Email Address Private tutorial and everything worked fine up until the point where you have to verify the fake email you created.

Cannot verify Fake email on GitHub

So how do I verify this fake email that I created on GitHub?

I did check my real email account that is associated with my GitHub account incase they sent an email there but no, I have not received anything there. Since it is a fake email address, I thought, maybe I can just click verify, but no, that doesn't work either.

Upvotes: 5

Views: 3556

Answers (2)

Don Kirkby
Don Kirkby

Reputation: 56230

You don't have to verify your fake e-mail address to use it in commits and have those commits linked to your GitHub account.

You also don't have to create your own fake e-mail address. GitHub creates one for you when you turn on the "Keep my email address private" option on your email settings. Next to your primary e-mail address, you should see a message like this:

Because you have email privacy enabled, [email protected] will be used for account-related notifications and [email protected] will be used for web-based GitHub operations (e.g. edits and merges).

You can use that no-reply e-mail address as your fake e-mail address. See the e-mail addresses help page for more details, including information on the new style of fake e-mail addresses that include an id number. Those addresses will continue to work if you change your GitHub account name.

Upvotes: 0

RyPeck
RyPeck

Reputation: 8177

You don't verify the fake e-mail address. This is how it is suppose to work. Just go ahead and use the fake e-mail address with commits.

Update -

GitHub recently update the Keeping Your Email Address Private tutorial. The "Hiding your email for commits on the website" section has everything you need to know, and will credit your commits to you. This way you won't have unverified e-mail addresses anymore.

Upvotes: 5

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