Account Management - Send Account Recovery Email

Forces an email to be sent to the registered email address for the user's account, with a link allowing the user to change the password.If an account recovery email template ID is provided, an email using the custom email template will be used.

POST https://titleId.playfabapi.com/Admin/SendAccountRecoveryEmail

Request Header

Name Required Type Description
X-SecretKey True

string

This API requires a title secret key, available to title admins, from PlayFab Game Manager.

Request Body

Name Required Type Description
Email True

string

User email address attached to their account

CustomTags

object

The optional custom tags associated with the request (e.g. build number, external trace identifiers, etc.).

EmailTemplateId

string

The email template id of the account recovery email template to send.

Responses

Name Type Description
200 OK

SendAccountRecoveryEmailResult

400 Bad Request

ApiErrorWrapper

This is the outer wrapper for all responses with errors

Security

X-SecretKey

This API requires a title secret key, available to title admins, from PlayFab Game Manager.

Type: apiKey
In: header

Definitions

Name Description
ApiErrorWrapper

The basic wrapper around every failed API response

SendAccountRecoveryEmailRequest

If the account in question is a "temporary" account (for example, one that was created via a call to LoginFromIOSDeviceID), thisfunction will have no effect. Only PlayFab accounts which have valid email addresses will be able to receive a password reset email using this API.

SendAccountRecoveryEmailResult

ApiErrorWrapper

The basic wrapper around every failed API response

Name Type Description
code

integer

Numerical HTTP code

error

string

Playfab error code

errorCode

integer

Numerical PlayFab error code

errorDetails

object

Detailed description of individual issues with the request object

errorMessage

string

Description for the PlayFab errorCode

status

string

String HTTP code

SendAccountRecoveryEmailRequest

If the account in question is a "temporary" account (for example, one that was created via a call to LoginFromIOSDeviceID), thisfunction will have no effect. Only PlayFab accounts which have valid email addresses will be able to receive a password reset email using this API.

Name Type Description
CustomTags

object

The optional custom tags associated with the request (e.g. build number, external trace identifiers, etc.).

Email

string

User email address attached to their account

EmailTemplateId

string

The email template id of the account recovery email template to send.

SendAccountRecoveryEmailResult

Error Codes

Name Code
EmailRecipientBlacklisted 1427
InvalidEmailAddress 1005
NoContactEmailAddressFound 1325
SmtpAddonNotEnabled 1341