Can other lemmy users see my email address I registered with?
from helloworld@lemmy.ml to privacy@lemmy.ml on 25 Aug 02:11
https://lemmy.ml/post/35169048

Can other lemmy clients or the server admins see the email address associated with my account?

#privacy

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helloworld@lemmy.ml on 25 Aug 02:12 next collapse

Can I change the email address associated with my account? I did not find it in the settings?

DrunkAnRoot@sh.itjust.works on 25 Aug 03:51 next collapse

contact the support of your instance unless it explicitly saya otherwise in there tos

davel@lemmy.ml on 25 Aug 05:01 collapse

<img alt="" src="https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/9859a273-1d39-400f-8717-2d6c94abfc45.png">

helloworld@lemmy.ml on 25 Aug 05:03 collapse

so once I delete the email contained in that field, it will be deleted on the server as well I hope? I should look this up in the lemmy code i.g.

davel@lemmy.ml on 25 Aug 05:40 collapse

I assume it’s removed from your user record in the Postgres database. Presumably there are database backups that will retain it. I haven’t worked on the Lemmy codebase nor do I sysadmin the server, so that’s all I can speculate from my past past experience designing & managing services of this kind.

helloworld@lemmy.ml on 25 Aug 05:50 collapse

I found this answer helpful, can you open it? lemmy.ml/post/35169048/20671736

davel@lemmy.ml on 25 Aug 06:00 next collapse

Can I open what? I can only get my own email address through the API: lemmy.readme.io/reference/get_site

curl -s -w "\n" -H "authorization: Bearer ${JWT}" https://lemmy.ml/api/v3/site \
    | jq -r '.my_user.local_user_view.local_user.email'
BlueEther@no.lastname.nz on 25 Aug 07:00 collapse

lemmy=# select p.name, i.domain, p.display_name, p.email from person p join instance i on p.instance_id = i.id where name=‘helloworld’;
ERROR: column p.email does not exist

email only exists in the local_user table

shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip on 25 Aug 02:26 next collapse

The admins of your server? Yes, I do believe they can. Anybody else though? No, they cannot.

BlueEther@no.lastname.nz on 25 Aug 05:31 next collapse

Even as a lemmy admin this is not exposed, you need server/DB access at the moment

davel@lemmy.ml on 25 Aug 05:43 next collapse

Yes, I just checked the API and I don’t see it exposed anywhere except to the user.

lazynooblet@lazysoci.al on 25 Aug 11:08 collapse

If manual registrations are enabled the admin can see email addresses in the standard gui for registrations

MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip on 25 Aug 11:31 next collapse

Hmm, let’s see… no, not visible.

Core_of_Arden@lemmy.ml on 25 Aug 11:49 next collapse

Can you see theirs?

SteakSneak@retrolemmy.com on 28 Aug 23:23 collapse

I tend to use temp email sites and sign up somewhere in my city with public WiFi. I also only use tor to access Lemmy. Is this too much? 🤣