How do we send email verification when user is not signed-in?

[anietieasuquo]

Hi there,

My app requires users to request email verification link if for some reason the original verification link cannot be used.

For this reason we would need to call auth().user.sendEmailVerification(). But in this case the user is not signed-in, so we do not have a user object.

We have tried to sign-in as anonymous user and update the email address to the user-provided email address, and then use it as anonymousUser.sendEmailVerification(), but we get the error auth/email-already-in-use.

So the question is; how do we send email verification link when the user is not signed-in?

[mikehardy]

Interesting - I haven't had this use case. Easiest way might be to use firebase-admin-sdk in a cloud function - have you tried that?

[anietieasuquo]

@mikehardy No I didn't try that, will try now.

[anietieasuquo]

Yeah that works 👍