1125687 - Can't add more aliases to Discourse user

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Infrastructure & Operations :: Community IT: Discourse, task)

Description

[Tanner Filip [:tanner]]

Tried adding another alias to the Discourse user, apparently we reached the max.

"This user already has the maximum number of aliases."

This is going to be a problem.

Comment 1

[Yousef Alam [:yalam96] (use NEEDINFO)]

Tad, can you ask google if they can raise/remove this limit?

Comment 2

[tad]

Let me make sure that we don't violate the TOS by using the mailboxes this way before I ask.

Can't you create a second mailbox and auto-forward? An extra $5 wouldn't hurt

Comment 3

[Yousef Alam [:yalam96] (use NEEDINFO)]

We could, but there's no harm in asking.

Comment 4

[tad]

There's a lot of harm in asking if what we're doing is in violation of TOS somehow.

It'd be like calling up a police hotline and asking them to close a road to block the officers chasing you ;)

I'll look into it.

Comment 5

[Yousef Alam [:yalam96] (use NEEDINFO)]

Lemme know if you don't have the time to set this up.

Comment 6

[Yousef Alam [:yalam96] (use NEEDINFO)]

We found a solution to this that uses less aliases - as a workaround to the current number we have we set up a mail forwarder.