[wp-forums] Email address on new account

Otto otto at ottodestruct.com
Tue Nov 27 20:28:26 UTC 2012


Caching, basically. The old email address is still associated with the
account in memory. It'll go away if he waits a day or two, or have him
email me the details.

-Otto



On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 1:39 PM, esmi at quirm dot net <esmi at quirm.net> wrote:
> Can anyone explain this:
>
> <http://wordpress.org/support/topic/change-display-and-link-name-here?replies=15>
>
> tl;dr: user wants to create new forum account. Changed email address in
> existing account to a throwaway address but still cannot use old address to
> register a new account.
>
> I've run a search and the email address is not being used by any other user.
> So why is an "Email already exists" message being generated?
>
> Mel
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