<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 5/16/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Jesse Vincent</b> <<a href="mailto:jesse@bestpractical.com">jesse@bestpractical.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<br><br><br>On Tue, May 16, 2006 at 12:22:01PM -0500, Kristopher Lusk wrote:<br>> Hi List,<br>><br>><br>><br>> I'm trying to add a new user via the web interface who happens to have a<br>> hyphen in their email address. RT does not like this and is complaining
<br>> about an illegal value in the email address ( User 18682: EmailAddress:<br>> Illegal value for EmailAddress ). For instance, if Best Practical's domain<br>> was <a href="http://best-practical.com">best-practical.com
</a> instead of <a href="http://bestpractical.com">bestpractical.com</a>, someone's email address<br>> would be <a href="mailto:xyz@best-practical.com">xyz@best-practical.com</a>. How would I add this person as a user?
<br>> Does putting double quotes around the address actually work?<br>><br><br>It's not the hyphen that's getting in your way.<br>It's a horrible error message. But it means they're already in RT as a<br>user. Search for users by email address. Find them. Click "Allow this
<br>user to access RT"<br><br>Jesse<br>_______________________________________________<br><a href="http://lists.bestpractical.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/rt-users">http://lists.bestpractical.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/rt-users
</a><br><br></blockquote></div><br>After reading this (and having trouble changing my email address in RT), I checked and found about six variaitions of my name in the RT Users table. All are legitimate variations, like <a href="mailto:firstname@ourdomain.com">
firstname@ourdomain.com</a>, <a href="mailto:firstname@our-old-domain.com">firstname@our-old-domain.com</a>, <a href="mailto:firstname.lastname@ourdomain.com">firstname.lastname@ourdomain.com</a>, etc. Most were probably created when I emailed in a ticket from various addresses, or when my email client was configured slightly differently. I think we have several other users in the same boat.
<br><br>Is there any way to "merge" users the way we can merge multiple tickets that are really about the same issue? Otherwise, I think the best solution is to set the email fields to <a href="mailto:null@null.com">
null@null.com</a> so I can set the email address on my 'real' account correctly.<br clear="all"><br>-- <br>sockmonk