Email addresses

The Email addresses tab of your settings, at auth.sourceorigin.dev/settings/emails, lists your addresses. Origin Auth sends security notices to your primary address, and apps you allow to see your email address receive it.

Before you start

You need to be signed in. Adding an address, choosing your primary one and removing one need a passkey confirmation.

Add an address

1. Select Add an address.
2. Type the address under Email address.
3. Select Send a confirmation link, and confirm with your passkey if your browser asks.

The page says We sent a confirmation link. Open it to confirm the address. The address shows Waiting for confirmation until you do.

An account can have up to 10 addresses.

Confirm an address

1. Open the email from SourceOrigin, titled Confirm your email address for your Origin Account, and open its link.
2. On Confirm your email address, select Confirm this address.

The page says Address confirmed. The link works once, for 24 hours, on any device: you don’t need to be signed in. If you are signed in to a different Origin Account in that browser, the page refuses, so you never confirm an address for someone else’s account. The email names the account the address joins: confirm only if it is yours.

Your first confirmed address becomes your primary address.

If the link expired, select Resend link beside the address.

Choose your primary address

1. Select Make primary beside a confirmed address.
2. Confirm with your passkey if your browser asks.

The page says Your primary address changed. We told your previous one. Origin Auth sends security notices to the new address from then on.

Remove an address

1. Select Remove beside the address.
2. Select Confirm removal, and confirm with your passkey if your browser asks.

SourceOrigin tells a confirmed address that it was removed. You can’t remove your primary address while another confirmed address could replace it: make that one primary first.

What apps receive

An app that asks for your email address, and that you allow, receives your primary address, marked as confirmed. It never receives your other addresses, or one you haven’t confirmed. Apps see a new primary address the next time they refresh your profile.

Without a confirmed address, apps receive none.

Troubleshooting

• “This address is already used by another Origin Account.” Another account confirmed it first. An address belongs to one account at a time.
• “Too many verification emails were sent recently. Please try again later.” SourceOrigin limits how many confirmation emails it sends in an hour. Wait, then select Resend link.
• “This verification link is invalid, has expired or was already used.” Select Resend link beside the address for a new one.
• “This link adds the address to an Origin Account other than the one you are signed in to.” Sign out first if the address is meant for the other account.
• “Make another address your primary address before removing this one.” See choose your primary address.