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Bug 15750 - email-blocked users can register false email addresses
email-blocked users can register false email addresses
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Product: MediaWiki
Classification: Unclassified
User blocking (Other open bugs)
unspecified
All All
: Lowest minor (vote)
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Assigned To: Nobody - You can work on this!
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Reported: 2008-09-28 01:27 UTC by Josh Gordon
Modified: 2011-03-13 18:04 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Description Josh Gordon 2008-09-28 01:27:59 UTC 
Users whose email has been blocked can still attempt to change their preferences and change their email addresses; this has been used to harass the blocking admin. (I've received several dozen "Wikipedia e-mail address confirmation" mails; it's just an annoyance, but still, email-blocked users shouldn't be able to futz with their email addresses anyway.)
Comment 1 Aryeh Gregor (not reading bugmail, please e-mail directly) 2008-09-28 01:34:33 UTC 
An e-mail-blocked user can still receive e-mail notifications of various events, and can still receive e-mail, so they should be able to change their e-mail address.  If someone already knows your e-mail address, can't they just harass you by sending you e-mails manually, just as easily as by changing their address to yours in the software?
Comment 2 Andrew Garrett 2008-09-28 02:40:11 UTC 
We could still probably solve that problem by rate-limiting confirmation mails per-email-address.
Comment 3 Josh Gordon 2008-09-28 05:13:25 UTC 
Good point. My particular harasser specializes in totally petty minor league crap like this.
Comment 4 Aaron Schulz 2009-01-03 17:01:23 UTC 
Closed per #1
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