How to change email for an account?

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How do change the email in for a user? Do you use Accounts.removeEmail and Accounts.addEmail in sequence? Will addEmail warn if email address exist? If so do I add back the first email with addEmail?

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You could consider changing this around a bit. Call Accounts.addEmail first with the new email, which will give you 3 possible outcomes:

  • If any other user has an email address that matches the new incoming email address, adding will fail.
  • If the user you’re modifying already has a matching email address stored with their profile, it will be updated (useful if the email case changes for example).
  • If the incoming email address is truly new (can’t be matched anywhere), it will be added as an additional email address in the users profile.

If outcome 3 above happens, you could then call Accounts.removeEmail. This way you aren’t removing the email address first then having to add it back in, in-case of failure.

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How do I check what happens if there’s no callback in the function Accounts.addEmail? Do I have to check if the email actually change, before and after, and/or having two emails?

Never mind. I got it. I have to use a call to the server and if exist I will get an error back.

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I do this in my app with the following Meteor.method:

  'changeEmail': function(email) {
      var email = email;
      check(email, String);
      var user = Meteor.user();
      var oldemail = user.emails;
      if(oldemail != null){
        Accounts.removeEmail(user._id, user.emails[0].address)
      }
      Accounts.addEmail(user._id, email);
      Accounts.sendVerificationEmail(user._id);
      return email;
   },

I first check if the user already has an email address, and if they do I remove it. Then I add their new one and send them a verification link.

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I triied your code but the method runs two and three times (method in a shared folder).