Managing Your User Profile

Published: February 14, 2025

The User Profile allows you to adjust your profile email, password and name, as well as your preferred locale and timezone.

Profile Email

The profile email is the email address that you use to log into your Maildroppa account. Also, this is the address that we will use to contact you. To change your profile email, we will send you a confirmation email to your new email address to avoid that you loose access to the Maildroppa App due to a small typo.

Profile Password

To ensure the security of your account, we use the OAuth 2.0 standard for authentication when you log in to the Maildroppa app. As part of this process, we will send you a password reset email when you need to change your password, rather than allowing you to make the change directly within the app. This is in line with industry best practices for secure password management.

API Key

To use the Maildroppa API, you need an API key that uniquely identifies your account. When you open your User Profile, you may see two different situations.

No Existing API Key

If no API key exists yet, you will find a Create API Key button. Click it to generate your first key. After it’s created, remember to copy it somewhere secure—you won’t be able to view the entire key again later.

Existing API Key

If an API key is already on file, you will see the key itself along with a Copy button that lets you copy it in one click. In addition, there are two other options:

• Recreate (🔄 Circle of Arrows Icon): This will revoke your current key and generate a new one. Use it if you suspect your key has been exposed or if you simply want to rotate your keys.
• Delete (🗑️ Trash Icon): Removes the key completely. This is helpful if you want to temporarily disable API access.

Your API key acts like a password, so keep it private at all times. If you need to change your key for security or organizational reasons, you can quickly recreate it through your User Profile.

Locale

Setting the locale affects how time, number and monetary amounts are displayed in the app.

Whenever possible, we display times and dates according to the time zone you have selected in your user profile. Contract-relevant dates however are always displayed uniformly in UTC date format, followed by the time zone abbreviation “UTC” to avoid any confusion.

Timezone

To avoid any confusion, we include the time zone abbreviation "UTC" after the date or time in this case.