[rt-users] Illegal value for EmailAddress

Kevin Freels kfreels at sendmail.com
Wed Jun 25 11:57:45 EDT 2008


Nevermind....

Found my problem.

I had created (then disabled) a user named kev-test with that address.
So the address wasn'r illegal, just already in use.

How do I delete (not just disable) users?

....k
-=-=-=-  

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kevin Freels 
> Sent: Wednesday, June 25, 2008 8:42 AM
> To: rt Users
> Subject: Illegal value for EmailAddress
> 
> Greetings!
> 
> Okay, this is a weird one....
> 
> I have set up several user accounts, and have had no trouble 
> setting up email addresses as needed for those users. 
> However, when I go to add/modify my *own* address to 
> "kfreels at sendmail.com", I get:
> 
>   User kfreels: Illegal value for EmailAddress
> 
> and it reverts back to the one I had before. I can change it 
> to *anything* but that (examples: kevin at sendmail.com, 
> kfreels at fred.com, etc), but just not "kfreels at sendmail.com". 
> Any other user is just fine with <user>@sendmail.com. The 
> only thing I can think of is that I have a local account on 
> this box whereas the other users do not. So I tried removing 
> the UnixAccount, Nickname, and everything else, but nothing changed. 
> 
> Nothing in the httpd access or error logs, or syslog (BTW, 
> are there any transaction logs to look at?).
> 
> Hints?
> 
> RT 3.6.5 / FC8
> 
> Thanks, as always.....
> 
> ....k
> -=-=-=-
> Kevin Freels
> Director of Information Technology
> Sendmail, Inc.
> kfreels at sendmail.com  510/594.5572



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