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How to change the Plesk administrator email address?

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.

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

Solution using CLI method for Plesk on Linux

Log into the server via SSH.
Execute the command below to change the Plesk administrator email address:
# plesk bin init_conf -u -email [email protected]

Note: replace [email protected] with the name of the required mail address.

Solution using CLI method for Plesk on Windows

Log into the server via RDP.
Start a command prompt as an Administrator.
Execute the command below to change the Plesk administrator email address:
C:> plesk bin init_conf -u -email [email protected]

Note: replace [email protected] with the name of the required mail address.