If you're trying to avoid making your email public via GitHub, you should also ensure: 1) "Public email" is set to "Don't show my email address" under https://

If you're trying to avoid making your email public via GitHub, you should also ensure: 1) "Public email" is set to "Don't show my email address" under https://github.com/settings/profile https://github.com/settings/profile 2) "Keep my email address private" is checked under https://github.com/settings/emails https://github.com/settings/emails It's frustrating that these are still two separate options - worse still that I believe I had the first option set when the second was added, unchecked by default, resulting in me leaking my email about a year ago. The spambots had it anyways, so I guess it wasn't that big a deal... and hey, maybe they added a warning someplace like I suggested?