Limitation: Change Subscriber Email Address via `subscriber.update()`

[chrisspiegl]

I just tried to further improve a sync feature between our platform and MailerLite to make sure that a users request to change their email address on our system would also be reflected in the MailerLite automations & subscription.

But as far as I can see, the subscriber.update API does not allow that?

Is this a limitation that is being worked on and possibly will be lifted in the future? Or do I have to follow the workaround discussed in other forums to create a new user and delete the old one?

I sincerely hope for an option to update the email address, to me, that seems like an obvious and necessary function.

[simon-kepplinger]

Just ran into the same issue and turns out you can actually pass email directly to the update call, it just isn't typed in the SDK interface.

Something like this should work:

await mailerlite.subscribers.update(
  subscriberId, 
  { email: newEmail }
);

The API itself accepts it (just cast to any if you are using typescript) and updates the email address. Looks like this is purely a typing issue in the SDK — email should probably just be added to UpdateSubscriberParams.