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| Project: | Listhandler |
| Version: | master |
| Component: | Code |
| Category: | bug report |
| Priority: | normal |
| Assigned: | philipnet |
| Status: | closed (duplicate) |
Issue Summary
Currently listhandler attempts to find a drupal user by "Name", and when that fails, it creates a new user with the name and email address in the email. As a result, when the name in the email doesnt exactly match the name provided in drupal, a new user is created with the same email address; this then prevents the real user account from being updated with an error message "The e-mail address xxxx is already taken."
Steps to reproduce:
1. create a drupal account using "First M Surname"
2. subscribe to an email list as "First Middle Surname"
3. post to the email list.
Expected results:
message associated with drupal user due to identical email address
Actual results
additional user created with same email address, preventing real account from being updated.
Comments
#1
This is probably because you don't have the right "From header" set up in mailhandler mailbox configuration. Even though it says something about using "Sender" with listservs, I have to use "From" to get it to work with messages coming from my mailman list.
#2
#3
Are #277848: Improved user detection: use email address rather than name and this the same issue now?
#4
Closing; duplicate of #277848. I will update that issue to include the nice description of the issue provided here.