Email verification restrictions
You cannot verify email addresses from disposable email address services (services that allow you to receive email at a temporary address that expires after a certain time). If you'd like to keep your email address private, you can use a GitHub-provided noreply email address. For more information, see Setting your commit email address.
If an organization you're a member of restricts email notifications to an approved email domain, you'll need to verify an email address in that domain to receive email notifications about activity in the organization. For more information, see Restricting email notifications for your organization.
Unverified email address restrictions
If you do not verify your email address, you cannot:
- 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
Email verification for managed user accounts
If you are a member of an enterprise with managed users and your account was created after August 1st, 2024, your email address is unverified by default.