# Ask to move your account to another email address

> Page: https://docs.plotwork.dev/api/post-user-email-change. Index of every page: https://docs.plotwork.dev/llms.txt

Emails a six-digit code to the new address.

`POST /user/email/change`

## TL;DR

| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What does it do? | Ask to move your account to another email address. |
| What does it take? | A JSON body of type [`EmailChangeBody`](https://docs.plotwork.dev/api/schemas.md#emailchangebody). |
| What does it return? | Status 202 with a body of type [`Accepted`](https://docs.plotwork.dev/api/schemas.md#accepted). |
| What can go wrong? | `400` the address is not valid; `401` not signed in; `403` an organisation manages the address (`account.email_managed`), or the origin may not make changes; `409` it is already the account's address (`account.email_same`); `429` too many requests; `502` the email could not be sent. Every failure uses the one error envelope. |

## What it does

Emails a six-digit code to the new address. Nothing changes until it is entered with POST /user/email/verify.

## Request body

The body has the type [`EmailChangeBody`](https://docs.plotwork.dev/api/schemas.md#emailchangebody).

| Field | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| `email` | `string` | yes | at least 3 characters; at most 254 characters. |

## Responses

| Status | Meaning | Body |
|---|---|---|
| 202 | Accepted. | [`Accepted`](https://docs.plotwork.dev/api/schemas.md#accepted) |
| 400 | The address is not valid. | [`ErrorResponse`](https://docs.plotwork.dev/api/schemas.md#errorresponse) |
| 401 | Not signed in. | [`ErrorResponse`](https://docs.plotwork.dev/api/schemas.md#errorresponse) |
| 403 | An organisation manages the address (`account.email_managed`), or the origin may not make changes. | [`ErrorResponse`](https://docs.plotwork.dev/api/schemas.md#errorresponse) |
| 409 | It is already the account's address (`account.email_same`). | [`ErrorResponse`](https://docs.plotwork.dev/api/schemas.md#errorresponse) |
| 429 | Too many requests. | [`ErrorResponse`](https://docs.plotwork.dev/api/schemas.md#errorresponse) |
| 502 | The email could not be sent. | [`ErrorResponse`](https://docs.plotwork.dev/api/schemas.md#errorresponse) |

## Response body

A 202 answer has the type [`Accepted`](https://docs.plotwork.dev/api/schemas.md#accepted).

| Field | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| `accepted` | `true` | yes |  |

## See also

| Doc | Why |
|---|---|
| [API reference](https://docs.plotwork.dev/api/reference.md) | Every endpoint, and the error envelope |
| [Schemas](https://docs.plotwork.dev/api/schemas.md) | Every request and response type |
| [Tool reference](https://docs.plotwork.dev/mcp/tools.md) | The operations as callable tools |