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Changing the verification link's lifetime

By default, the email verification link's lifetime is 1 day. This can be changed via a core's config (time in milliseconds):

With Docker
Without Docker

# Here we set the lifetime to 2 hours.

docker run \
    -p 3567:3567 \
    -e EMAIL_VERIFICATION_TOKEN_LIFETIME=7200000 \ 
    -d registry.supertokens.io/supertokens/supertokens-<db_name>

# You need to add the following to the config.yaml file.
# The file path can be found by running the "supertokens --help" command

email_verification_token_lifetime: 7200000

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For managed service, this values can be updated by visiting our dashboard.
This requires that your SuperTokens core version >= 3.6.0

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