Verify email address to secure Enterprise Managed User accounts

As previously announced, Enterprise Managed Users (EMUs) must now prove ownership of their email addresses to secure their accounts and prevent any accidental data leaks by third party GitHub Apps and OAuth applications. In January 2025, we also updated the /user/emails REST endpoint to return a placeholder email address with the enterprise’s shortcode appended (e.g. email+shortcode@domain.com) until the EMU user has verified their email address.

While unverified emails may not affect most of your actions on GitHub, some GitHub Apps and OAuth apps may not handle this placeholder email properly. This may prevent you from accessing those apps or result in incomplete data being displayed. These apps may also prompt you to verify your email on GitHub before proceeding.

For example, GitHub Desktop might incorrectly prompt users to update their email in their Git config to their placeholder email. However, updating your Git config email could lead to commit misattribution as opposed to fixing it. While this experience is updated in GitHub Desktop v3.4.17-beta3, we recommend users verify their email address in response to such prompts.

Learn more about how to verify your email address.
App developers should also review our best practices for OAuth and GitHub App implementation to avoid disrupting the user experience in your apps.

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