[Mailman-Developers] "Address already exists" when creating users, but it creates a new user anyway

[Barry Warsaw]

On Feb 01, 2015, at 07:23 PM, Andrew Stuart wrote:

>In the commands below you can see that I start by getting a list of users, it
>returns "total_size": 1

How was this user created and with what email address?

>I then execute a POST to the REST API multiple times.  Each time it says
>“Address already exists”, and then getting a list of users says total_size":
>2
>
>Is this the way its intended to work or a bug?

Nope, and I can't reproduce it.  Are you sure there are no other processes
running, and nothing else hitting the REST API that could be racing with that
POST?

Try tailing the mailman.log and watching for http activity.

Cheers,
-Barry