Even as a lemmy admin this is not exposed, you need server/DB access at the moment
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Yes, I just checked the API and I don’t see it exposed anywhere except to the user.
If manual registrations are enabled the admin can see email addresses in the standard gui for registrations
Can you see theirs?
The admins of your server? Yes, I do believe they can. Anybody else though? No, they cannot.
Hmm, let's see... no, not visible.
Can I change the email address associated with my account? I did not find it in the settings?
contact the support of your instance unless it explicitly saya otherwise in there tos
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.
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.
I found this answer helpful, can you open it? https://lemmy.ml/post/35169048/20671736
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
Can I open what? I can only get my own email address through the API: https://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'