Cannot verify Fake email in GitHub

Question

I have created a GitHub account and, I do not like sharing my email address publicly (I'm sick of Spam), so I followed GitHub's Keeping Your Email Address Private tutorial and everything worked fine up until the point where you have to verify the fake email you created.

So how do I verify this fake email that I created on GitHub?

I did check my real email account that is associated with my GitHub account incase they sent an email there but no, I have not received anything there. Since it is a fake email address, I thought, maybe I can just click verify, but no, that doesn't work either.

Answer 1

You don't verify the fake e-mail address. This is how it is suppose to work. Just go ahead and use the fake e-mail address with commits.

Update -

GitHub recently update the Keeping Your Email Address Private tutorial. The "Hiding your email for commits on the website" section has everything you need to know, and will credit your commits to you. This way you won't have unverified e-mail addresses anymore.