---
title: "client.account"
description: "Every method in this namespace: its signature, its parameters, what it returns and an example."
url: "https://openemail.uk/docs/ruby/reference/account"
area: "Ruby"
category: "Reference"
---

# client.account

Every method in this namespace: its signature, its parameters, what it returns and an example.

## Methods

The account of the person behind the key or the app: the email notifications they get and the workspaces muted on their phone, their profile photo and username, the apps they connected and the invitations waiting for them. An API key acts for the workspace owner, and an app for the person who connected it.

### `account.get_notifications`

Read your notification settings

```ruby
get_notifications(api_key: nil) -> Hash
```

Returns which kinds of email OpenEmail sends the person, as Account, Notifications shows them, and the workspaces whose notifications are muted on their phone. An API key answers for the workspace owner, and an app for the person who connected it.

Scopes: `account:read`.

**Parameters**

- `api_key` (`String`): Overrides the client's API key for this call only.

**Returns**

A Hash with `email`, an Array with one Hash for each kind of email, each with `category`, `label`, `description`, `required` and `enabled`, and `mutedWorkspaces`.

**Example**

```ruby
settings = client.account.get_notifications

settings[:email].each { |kind| puts "#{kind[:label]} #{kind[:enabled]}" }
```

**Notes**

- `account` and `billing` email are always on, and `required` says so.

Also available in: API [`GET /account/notifications`](https://openemail.uk/docs/api/reference/your-account#get-account-notifications); TypeScript [`account.getNotifications()`](https://openemail.uk/docs/sdk/reference/account#getNotifications); Python [`account.get_notifications()`](https://openemail.uk/docs/python/reference/account#getNotifications); CLI [`openemail account get-notifications`](https://openemail.uk/docs/cli/reference/account#account-get-notifications).

### `account.set_email_notification`

Turn a kind of email on or off

```ruby
set_email_notification(category, body = nil, api_key: nil, **fields) -> Hash
```

`enabled: false` stops OpenEmail sending the person that kind of email, and `true` starts it again. `activity` and `product` can be turned off. `account` and `billing` cannot, and asking to is a 422 `invalid_parameter` on `category`.

Scopes: `account:write`.

**Parameters**

- `category` (`String`, required): `account`, `billing`, `activity` or `product`.
- `enabled` (`Boolean`, required): True to receive that email, false to stop it.
- `api_key` (`String`): Overrides the client's API key for this call only.

**Returns**

The same Hash as `account.get_notifications`, as it is after the change.

**Example**

```ruby
client.account.set_email_notification("product", enabled: false)
```

**Notes**

- Retried automatically on network failure, since the same setting sent twice changes nothing.

Also available in: API [`PUT /account/notifications/email/{category}`](https://openemail.uk/docs/api/reference/your-account#put-account-notifications-email-category); TypeScript [`account.setEmailNotification()`](https://openemail.uk/docs/sdk/reference/account#setEmailNotification); Python [`account.set_email_notification()`](https://openemail.uk/docs/python/reference/account#setEmailNotification); CLI [`openemail account set-email-notification`](https://openemail.uk/docs/cli/reference/account#account-set-email-notification).

### `account.set_push_muted`

Mute a workspace on your phone

```ruby
set_push_muted(workspace_id, body = nil, api_key: nil, **fields) -> Hash
```

`muted: true` stops the phone app notifying the person about the mail of one workspace, on every phone they signed in on, and `false` lets it notify them again.

Scopes: `account:write`.

**Parameters**

- `workspace_id` (`String`, required): A workspace id from `workspaces.list`.
- `muted` (`Boolean`, required): True to mute it, false to let it notify again.
- `api_key` (`String`): Overrides the client's API key for this call only.

**Returns**

The same Hash as `account.get_notifications`, with the new `mutedWorkspaces`.

**Example**

```ruby
settings = client.account.set_push_muted("10417196-e324-4283-af98-66ec62167c47", muted: true)

p settings[:mutedWorkspaces]
```

**Notes**

- A workspace the person cannot open is a 404 `resource_not_found`.
- Retried automatically on network failure, since the same setting sent twice changes nothing.

Also available in: API [`PUT /account/notifications/push/{workspaceId}`](https://openemail.uk/docs/api/reference/your-account#put-account-notifications-push-workspaceid); TypeScript [`account.setPushMuted()`](https://openemail.uk/docs/sdk/reference/account#setPushMuted); Python [`account.set_push_muted()`](https://openemail.uk/docs/python/reference/account#setPushMuted); CLI [`openemail account set-push-muted`](https://openemail.uk/docs/cli/reference/account#account-set-push-muted).

### `account.set_photo`

Set your profile photo

```ruby
set_photo(data, content_type: nil, api_key: nil) -> Hash
```

Sends the image bytes as the request body, replacing the person's profile photo, as Account, Profile does. PNG, JPEG, WebP and GIF are accepted, up to 5 MB. The server fits the image into a 512 pixel square, stores it as WebP and keeps the first frame of an animation.

`data` is a binary `String`, an `IO` or a `Pathname`. The type is read from `content_type:`, or, when that is left out, from the `content_type` of `data` itself or the extension of its file name. Without either the bytes go as `application/octet-stream` and the server refuses them with 422 `invalid_image`.

Scopes: `account:write`.

**Parameters**

- `data` (`String, IO or Pathname`, required): The image: a binary `String`, an `IO` or a `Pathname`.
- `content_type` (`String`): `image/png`, `image/jpeg`, `image/webp` or `image/gif`. Required unless `data` carries its type, as an object with a `content_type` or a `Pathname` or `File` named with the extension of the type.
- `api_key` (`String`): Overrides the client's API key for this call only.

**Returns**

A Hash with the new `url`.

**Example**

```ruby
photo = client.account.set_photo(File.binread("photo.jpg"), content_type: "image/jpeg")

puts photo[:url]
```

**Notes**

- A busy image service answers 503 `image_busy`, which the SDK retries like any other 503.
- Every upload gets a new URL, so a cached old photo never shows under the new one.

Also available in: API [`PUT /account/photo`](https://openemail.uk/docs/api/reference/your-account#put-account-photo); TypeScript [`account.setPhoto()`](https://openemail.uk/docs/sdk/reference/account#setPhoto); Python [`account.set_photo()`](https://openemail.uk/docs/python/reference/account#setPhoto); CLI [`openemail account set-photo`](https://openemail.uk/docs/cli/reference/account#account-set-photo).

### `account.remove_photo`

Remove your profile photo

```ruby
remove_photo(api_key: nil) -> Hash
```

Removes the profile photo and deletes the stored image, so the app shows the person's initials again. Removing it when there is none changes nothing.

Scopes: `account:write`.

**Parameters**

- `api_key` (`String`): Overrides the client's API key for this call only.

**Returns**

A Hash with `url` nil.

**Example**

```ruby
client.account.remove_photo
```

**Notes**

- Safe to replay, so the SDK retries it after a network failure.

Also available in: API [`DELETE /account/photo`](https://openemail.uk/docs/api/reference/your-account#delete-account-photo); TypeScript [`account.removePhoto()`](https://openemail.uk/docs/sdk/reference/account#removePhoto); Python [`account.remove_photo()`](https://openemail.uk/docs/python/reference/account#removePhoto); CLI [`openemail account remove-photo`](https://openemail.uk/docs/cli/reference/account#account-remove-photo).

### `account.get_username`

Read your username

```ruby
get_username(api_key: nil) -> Hash
```

Returns the person's username, whether they chose it or it was made for them from their name, and the free address it gives them when this deployment offers one. A username the person chose never changes.

Scopes: `account:read`.

**Parameters**

- `api_key` (`String`): Overrides the client's API key for this call only.

**Returns**

A Hash with `username`, `chosen` and `address`.

**Example**

```ruby
username, chosen, address = client.account.get_username.values_at(:username, :chosen, :address)

puts username, chosen ? "chosen" : "made for you", address
```

**Notes**

- The first read makes a username for an account that has none.

Also available in: API [`GET /account/username`](https://openemail.uk/docs/api/reference/your-account#get-account-username); TypeScript [`account.getUsername()`](https://openemail.uk/docs/sdk/reference/account#getUsername); Python [`account.get_username()`](https://openemail.uk/docs/python/reference/account#getUsername); CLI [`openemail account get-username`](https://openemail.uk/docs/cli/reference/account#account-get-username).

### `account.check_username`

Check a username

```ruby
check_username(username, api_key: nil) -> Hash
```

Says whether the person could choose a username, without choosing it, and why not when they could not. The username is lowercased and its spaces become dots before it is checked, as the app does, and `username` in the answer is the form that was checked.

Scopes: `account:read`.

**Parameters**

- `username` (`String`, required): Up to 60 characters before it is tidied.
- `api_key` (`String`): Overrides the client's API key for this call only.

**Returns**

A Hash with `status`, `available` and a `message` that says why.

**Example**

```ruby
check = client.account.check_username("ada.lovelace")

puts check[:message] unless check[:available]
```

**Notes**

- `status` is `current` for the username the person already has, and `available` is false for it.

Also available in: API [`GET /account/username/availability`](https://openemail.uk/docs/api/reference/your-account#get-account-username-availability); TypeScript [`account.checkUsername()`](https://openemail.uk/docs/sdk/reference/account#checkUsername); Python [`account.check_username()`](https://openemail.uk/docs/python/reference/account#checkUsername); CLI [`openemail account check-username`](https://openemail.uk/docs/cli/reference/account#account-check-username).

### `account.set_username`

Choose your username

```ruby
set_username(username, api_key: nil) -> Hash
```

Sets the person's username for good, and with it their free address. Once chosen it never changes: a second choice is refused with 409 `username_locked`. A username another account has is a 409 `username_taken`, and one that is too short, too long, reserved or not lowercase letters, numbers and single dots is a 422 `invalid_parameter` on `username`. Check one first with `check_username`.

Scopes: `account:write`.

**Parameters**

- `username` (`String`, required): 3 to 30 lowercase letters, numbers and single dots once it is tidied.
- `api_key` (`String`): Overrides the client's API key for this call only.

**Returns**

The same Hash as `account.get_username`, with `chosen` set to true.

**Example**

```ruby
check = client.account.check_username("ada.lovelace")

if check[:available] == false
  puts check[:message]
else
  client.account.set_username(check[:username])
end
```

**Notes**

- Not retried automatically: a retry after a lost response would be refused with `username_locked`, because the first call already chose it.

Also available in: API [`PUT /account/username`](https://openemail.uk/docs/api/reference/your-account#put-account-username); TypeScript [`account.setUsername()`](https://openemail.uk/docs/sdk/reference/account#setUsername); Python [`account.set_username()`](https://openemail.uk/docs/python/reference/account#setUsername); CLI [`openemail account set-username`](https://openemail.uk/docs/cli/reference/account#account-set-username).

### `account.list_connected_apps`

List your connected apps

```ruby
list_connected_apps(api_key: nil) -> Array<Hash>
```

Returns every app the person connected with OAuth, as Account, Connected apps lists them: the workspace and the permissions each may reach, until when, how many tokens it holds, and until when it may make changes that ask for a verification code without one. `current` marks the app making the call.

What an app may reach is changed in the app, never through an app.

Scopes: `account:read`.

**Parameters**

- `api_key` (`String`): Overrides the client's API key for this call only.

**Returns**

An Array of Hashes, each with `clientId`, `name`, `kind`, `status`, `grant` and `tokenCount`.

**Example**

```ruby
apps = client.account.list_connected_apps

apps.each do |app|
  label = app[:current] ? "(this app)" : ""
  puts "#{app[:name]} #{app[:status]} #{label}"
end
```

**Notes**

- A sign-in of the command line tool shows as `kind: "cli"`, with its device in `cliDevice`.

Also available in: API [`GET /account/connected-apps`](https://openemail.uk/docs/api/reference/your-account#get-account-connected-apps); TypeScript [`account.listConnectedApps()`](https://openemail.uk/docs/sdk/reference/account#listConnectedApps); Python [`account.list_connected_apps()`](https://openemail.uk/docs/python/reference/account#listConnectedApps); CLI [`openemail account list-connected-apps`](https://openemail.uk/docs/cli/reference/account#account-list-connected-apps).

### `account.revoke_connected_app`

Remove a connected app

```ruby
revoke_connected_app(client_id, api_key: nil) -> Hash
```

Deletes every token the app holds and the access the person gave it, so its next call is refused and it has to ask again, as removing it in Account, Connected apps does. Removing the app making the call disconnects it.

Scopes: `account:write`.

**Parameters**

- `client_id` (`String`, required): The app's `clientId` from `list_connected_apps`.
- `api_key` (`String`): Overrides the client's API key for this call only.

**Returns**

A Hash with `revoked` set to true and `tokensRevoked`.

**Example**

```ruby
revoked = client.account.revoke_connected_app("kPzQwRtYuIoPaSdFgHjKlZxCvBnMqWeR")

puts revoked[:tokensRevoked]
```

**Notes**

- An app the person never connected is a 404 `resource_not_found`.
- Not retried automatically. A retry after a lost response is a 404, since the app is already gone.

Also available in: API [`DELETE /account/connected-apps/{clientId}`](https://openemail.uk/docs/api/reference/your-account#delete-account-connected-apps-clientid); TypeScript [`account.revokeConnectedApp()`](https://openemail.uk/docs/sdk/reference/account#revokeConnectedApp); Python [`account.revoke_connected_app()`](https://openemail.uk/docs/python/reference/account#revokeConnectedApp); CLI [`openemail account revoke-connected-app`](https://openemail.uk/docs/cli/reference/account#account-revoke-connected-app).

### `account.list_invitations`

List your invitations

```ruby
list_invitations(api_key: nil) -> Array<Hash>
```

Returns the invitations to join a workspace that are waiting for the address the person signs in with, oldest first. Expired, accepted and withdrawn ones are left out. The invitations a workspace sent are `members.list_invitations` instead.

Scopes: `account:read`.

**Parameters**

- `api_key` (`String`): Overrides the client's API key for this call only.

**Returns**

An Array of Hashes, each with `id`, `workspaceName`, `roleName`, `inviterName`, `addresses` and `expiresAt`.

**Example**

```ruby
invitations = client.account.list_invitations

invitations.each { |invitation| puts "#{invitation[:workspaceName]} #{invitation[:roleName]}" }
```

**Notes**

- `addresses` counts the addresses and the whole domains the invitation gives together.

Also available in: API [`GET /account/invitations`](https://openemail.uk/docs/api/reference/your-account#get-account-invitations); TypeScript [`account.listInvitations()`](https://openemail.uk/docs/sdk/reference/account#listInvitations); Python [`account.list_invitations()`](https://openemail.uk/docs/python/reference/account#listInvitations); CLI [`openemail account list-invitations`](https://openemail.uk/docs/cli/reference/account#account-list-invitations).

### `account.accept_invitation`

Accept an invitation

```ruby
accept_invitation(invitation_id, activate: nil, api_key: nil) -> Hash
```

Joins the workspace with the role and the addresses the invitation gives, as accepting it in the app or from its link does. `activate: true` also makes it the workspace the app opens for the person.

A workspace that asks everyone in it to sign in with two-factor authentication is refused with 403 `two_factor_required` until the person turns it on. An invitation that expired, was withdrawn or went to another address is a 422, and one that is not waiting any more a 404 `invitation_not_found`.

Scopes: `account:write`.

**Parameters**

- `invitation_id` (`String`, required): An invitation id from `list_invitations`.
- `activate` (`Boolean`): True to make it the workspace the app opens. Defaults to false.
- `api_key` (`String`): Overrides the client's API key for this call only.

**Returns**

A Hash with `workspaceId`, `workspaceName`, `addressesGranted`, `domainsGranted` and `activated`.

**Example**

```ruby
first = client.account.list_invitations.first

if first
  joined = client.account.accept_invitation(first[:id], activate: true)
  puts joined[:workspaceName]
end
```

**Notes**

- Retried automatically on network failure, since accepting an invitation the person already accepted succeeds again and changes nothing.

Also available in: API [`POST /account/invitations/{invitationId}/accept`](https://openemail.uk/docs/api/reference/your-account#post-account-invitations-invitationid-accept); TypeScript [`account.acceptInvitation()`](https://openemail.uk/docs/sdk/reference/account#acceptInvitation); Python [`account.accept_invitation()`](https://openemail.uk/docs/python/reference/account#acceptInvitation); CLI [`openemail account accept-invitation`](https://openemail.uk/docs/cli/reference/account#account-accept-invitation).

### `account.decline_invitation`

Decline an invitation

```ruby
decline_invitation(invitation_id, api_key: nil) -> Hash
```

Turns the invitation down, so its link stops working, and tells whoever sent it. It cannot be taken back: they have to invite the person again. An invitation the person already accepted is refused with 409 `invitation_accepted`.

Scopes: `account:write`.

**Parameters**

- `invitation_id` (`String`, required): An invitation id from `list_invitations`.
- `api_key` (`String`): Overrides the client's API key for this call only.

**Returns**

A Hash with `declined` set to true.

**Example**

```ruby
client.account.decline_invitation("winv_6bb640f5b99e47deb758f1f5")
```

**Notes**

- Retried automatically on network failure, since declining twice changes nothing.

Also available in: API [`POST /account/invitations/{invitationId}/decline`](https://openemail.uk/docs/api/reference/your-account#post-account-invitations-invitationid-decline); TypeScript [`account.declineInvitation()`](https://openemail.uk/docs/sdk/reference/account#declineInvitation); Python [`account.decline_invitation()`](https://openemail.uk/docs/python/reference/account#declineInvitation); CLI [`openemail account decline-invitation`](https://openemail.uk/docs/cli/reference/account#account-decline-invitation).