AppDb account problem

[Francois Gouget]

A bit over a week ago I received an email telling me that my AppDb 
account would soon get deleted due to inactivity. I don't really 
remember creating an AppDb account but it is possible I did. So I went 
there to check it out but of course I could not remember my password.

So I typed my email address and clicked on 'Email me a New Password' but 
got the following error message:

Sorry, that user (fgouget%40free.fr) does not exist.

So I tried my other email address and got the same message. So at this 
point I see two possibilities:

* I don't have an account on the AppDb. Why did I receive an email 
saying my AppDb account was inactive then?

* Or there is a bug in the 'Email a New Password' functionality. Maybe 
it's the '%40' causing the problem?

Either it's a bug in the AppDb code so I thought it would be good to 
report the problem here.

[Chris Morgan]

Right.  There was a bug with the cleanup script that performed:

if user is inactive for >=6 months, warn them about inactivity
if user is inactive for >=7 months, delete them

You can see the issue with this logic right away.  Your account was
unfortunately warned and then deleted.

We've fixed this bug and the issue with the login page echoing back
the encoded version of your email address is also scheduled to be
fixed in the near future.

Chris

On 10/4/05, Francois Gouget  wrote:
> A bit over a week ago I received an email telling me that my AppDb
> account would soon get deleted due to inactivity. I don't really
> remember creating an AppDb account but it is possible I did. So I went
> there to check it out but of course I could not remember my password.
>
> So I typed my email address and clicked on 'Email me a New Password' but
> got the following error message:
>   Sorry, that user (fgouget%40free.fr) does not exist.
>
> So I tried my other email address and got the same message. So at this
> point I see two possibilities:
> - I don't have an account on the AppDb. Why did I receive an email
>
> saying my AppDb account was inactive then?
> - Or there is a bug in the 'Email a New Password' functionality. Maybe
>
> it's the '%40' causing the problem?
>
> Either it's a bug in the AppDb code so I thought it would be good to
> report the problem here.
>
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