[rt-users] RT thinks some email addresses are invalid

[Toni Willberg]

On 17 Apr 2002 11:59:07 +1000
"Byron Ellacott" <bje at apnic.net> wrote:

> On Tue, 2002-04-16 at 18:16, Toni Willberg wrote:
> > I found out that RT does not access some email addresses, it yells:
> > "EmailAddress: Illegal value for EmailAddress" The address was in
> > format"firstname.lastname at example.com", no special characters, just
> > [a-z].
> 
> An email address is considered "Illegal" if it is already attached to
> another User, this could be your problem.
>

Thanks!

Indeed there was autocreated user by that email address already...

But because there seems to be no way removing (even) autocreated users,
I just changed it's email address.

Problem solved. Ofcourse author should make more logic there and make RT
print out why it's illegal (=duplicate address).

- Toni