Verifying your email address

Verifying your primary email address ensures strengthened security, allows GitHub staff to better assist you if you forget your password, and gives you access to more features on GitHub.

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About email verification for personal accounts

You can verify your email address after signing up for a new account, or when you add a new email address. If an email address is undeliverable or bouncing, it will be unverified.

If you do not verify your email address, you will not be able to:

  • Create or fork repositories
  • Create issues or pull requests
  • Comment on issues, pull requests, or commits
  • Authorize OAuth app applications
  • Generate personal access tokens
  • Receive email notifications
  • Star repositories
  • Create or update projects
  • Create or update gists
  • Create or use GitHub Actions
  • Sponsor developers with GitHub Sponsors
  • Accept organization invitations

경고

  • 일회용 메일 주소 서비스(특정 시간 후에 만료되는 임시 주소에서 메일을 받을 수 있는 서비스)의 메일 주소는 확인할 수 없습니다. 메일 주소를 프라이빗으로 유지하려는 경우 GitHub에서 제공한 noreply 메일 주소를 사용할 수 있습니다. 자세한 내용은 Setting your commit email address을(를) 참조하세요.
  • 멤버로 속해 있는 조직에서 메일 알림을 승인된 메일 도메인으로 제한하는 경우 조직 내 활동에 대한 메일 알림을 받으려면 해당 도메인의 메일 주소를 확인해야 합니다. 자세한 내용은 조직에 대한 메일 알림 제한을(를) 참조하세요.

About email verification for 관리형 사용자 계정

For Enterprise Managed Users (EMUs), email addresses are no longer automatically verified. This prevents unauthorized access and potential data leaks from third-party GitHub Apps and OAuth applications that rely on email addresses as a primary identifier.

참고 항목

If you are a member of an 관리형 사용자가 있는 엔터프라이즈 and your account was created after August 1st, 2024, your email address is unverified by default.

Having an unverified email address does not affect most actions you can take on GitHub. However, we recommend email verification to prevent potential exploitation of third-party GitHub Apps and OAuth apps which may not have followed our best practices around secure authentication methods for apps (see OAuth 앱 만들기 모범 사례 and GitHub App을 만드는 모범 사례).

Until you verify your email address, your account will use a placeholder email address with your enterprise's shortcode appended for certain operations. For example, the 사용자에 대한 REST API 엔드포인트 and 이메일에 대한 REST API 엔드포인트 will return email+shortcode@domain.com. In rare cases, you may find that your company's email provider does not handle the placeholder email correctly, or that the placeholder prevents you from accessing some third-party GitHub Apps and OAuth apps.

You cannot verify an email address for your 관리형 사용자 계정 if the email address is already verified by another account on GitHub.com. To verify the email, you will need to unverify the email address on the conflicting account, then verify it for your 관리형 사용자 계정. See Changing your primary email address.

Once you verify an email with a 관리형 사용자 계정, you won't be able to use the email to sign up for a personal account on GitHub.com.

참고 항목

If you need to use the same email address for both your 관리형 사용자 계정 and another GitHub account (for example, for innersource, open source, or other valid use cases), you must sign in to your managed user account and unverify the email in your account settings.

The email will still be linked to your managed user account, so you can continue signing in through your organization's or enterprise's identity provider (IdP). However, because the email is unverified, it may affect your access to third-party applications that identify users based solely on email address.

Verifying your email address

  1. GitHub의 페이지 오른쪽 상단에서 프로필 사진을 선택한 다음, 설정을 선택합니다.

  2. 사이드바의 "액세스" 섹션에서 이메일을 클릭합니다.

  3. Under your email address, click Resend verification email.

    Screenshot of email addresses on the "Emails" page. Under an email address, a link, labeled "Resend verification email," is outlined in orange.

  4. GitHub will send you an email with a link in it. After you click that link, you'll be taken to your GitHub dashboard and see a confirmation banner.

Troubleshooting email verification

Unable to send verification email

일회용 메일 주소 서비스(특정 시간 후에 만료되는 임시 주소에서 메일을 받을 수 있는 서비스)의 메일 주소는 확인할 수 없습니다. 메일 주소를 프라이빗으로 유지하려는 경우 GitHub에서 제공한 noreply 메일 주소를 사용할 수 있습니다. 자세한 내용은 Setting your commit email address을(를) 참조하세요.

Error page after clicking verification link

The verification link expires after 24 hours. If you don't verify your email within 24 hours, you can request another email verification link. For more information, see Verifying your email address.

If you click on the link in the confirmation email within 24 hours and you are directed to an error page, you should ensure that you're signed into the correct account on GitHub.

  1. Sign out of your account.
  2. Quit and restart your browser.
  3. Sign in to your account.
  4. Click on the verification link in the email we sent you.

Email is already verified by another user

If you see the error message Error adding EMAIL: Email is already verified by another user, you must either unverify the email for the other account before proceeding, or choose a different email address to verify.

To unverify an email address, delete it in your email settings, then optionally re-add it without verifying to keep any commits linked to your account. See Changing your primary email address.

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