Comment 4 for bug 1132981

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Ricardo Kirkner (ricardokirkner) wrote : Re: [Bug 1132981] [NEW] Wrong error when adding an invalidated email

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On 02/25/2013 05:41 PM, Leo Arias wrote:
> Public bug reported:
>
> When I'm adding an email to my account that was invalidated, I get
> an error saying:
>
> "Email already associated with account."
>
> That's true, but misleading. It would be better if we display the
> same message that appears when I try to log in with the invalidated
> email:
>
> "This email address has been invalidated. Please contact login
> support."
>
> And may I add that this message is incomplete. It would be better
> to say something like: "This email address has been invalidated.
> Please double-check that it's yours, and then contact login
> support."
>
> To reproduce: Log in. Go to https://login.ubuntu.com/+emails add an
> email Go to the inbox and click the invalidate link. Log in again.
> Go to https://login.ubuntu.com/+emails Add the same email.

Maybe the problem is that the invalidated email is not being
displayed? What if we display the invalidated email, but don't allow
to operate on it? Would that improve things? If I add an email that I
see is already present, I wouldn't be confused by the current error
message.

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