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How to change the Plesk administrator email address?

Daniel Yordanov
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Applicable to:

  • Plesk for Linux
  • Plesk for Windows

Question

How to change the Plesk administrator email address?

Answer

Note: The steps below are applicable only for main Plesk Administrator account (the email address of which is also used to send Plesk server notifications). In order to change email address for additional Plesk administrator accounts it is required to contact main Plesk administrator with the corresponding request.

  1. Log into Plesk.
  2. Press on administrator username on the right-upper corner of the Plesk panel and after press the Edit Profile button: 
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  3. Specify the required email address into the Email address* field:
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  4. Scroll down and press the OK button to apply the changes.

 

Solution using CLI method for Plesk on Linux
  1. Log into the server via SSH.
  2. Execute the command below to change the Plesk administrator email address:

    # plesk bin init_conf -u -email admin@example.com

    Note: replace admin@example.com with the name of the required mail address.

Solution using CLI method for Plesk on Windows
  1. Log into the server via RDP.
  2. Start a command prompt as an Administrator.
  3. Execute the command below to change the Plesk administrator email address:

    C:\> plesk bin init_conf -u -email admin@example.com

    Note: replace admin@example.com with the name of the required mail address.

Additional information

How to manage email notifications in Plesk

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    Chris Burns

    What do we do when the Contact name and Email address fields aren't there?

    I can only see the first 2 settings: "Administrator's interface language" and "Allow multiple sessions under this account"

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    Manuel García

    I have the same problem

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    Ivan Kamnev

    Hello @Manuel García,
    Please verify that you are logged into Plesk GUI under the main admin account
    The message as below should be shown on the Edit Profile page:

    Editing Administrator Profile

    In case you see the following message:

    Additional Administrator Account Information

    This means that you are logged into Plesk under the additional administrator account.
    In this case, you need to ask main admin to change password for your additional administrator account in Plesk > Tools & Settings > Additional Administrator Accounts > johndoe

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