#3621 Email address is inconsistent? Cannot change it?

[Paul Leopardi]

On http://slashdot.org/users.pl
I tried to change my email address from <what it was>
to <what it is now> (after a bunch of typos).

Slashdot apparrently let me do this, sending me the
following message.

Slashdot user email change for leopardi
From:
slashdot@slashdot.org
To:
<what it is now>
Date:
2006-04-16 11:12

The user account leopardi on Slashdot had this email
associated
with it. A web user from 203.217.65.154 has just
changed it to
<what it is now>.

If this is not correct, if you did not request this
change,
please contact the site administrator immediately.

CowboyNeal
pater@slashdot.org

But when I logged out of slashdot and logged back in
again, my email address is still <what it was>

Now Slashdot won't let me change it to <what it is
now>:

Saving leopardi.
Sorry, the email address <what it is now> already
exists in our user database. If you've forgotten your
password to an existing account, please go here.

If I then use
http://slashdot.org/login.pl?op=mailpasswdform to try
to have the password sent to <what it is now> I get
the message

User was not found. No password was mailed.

How can the email address already exist in the
database and yet the user be "not found" ?

How do I change my email address?

[Jamie McCarthy]

Logged In: YES
user_id=3889

mysql> select uid,nickname from users where realemail='<its current
value>';
+--------+----------+
| uid | nickname |
+--------+----------+
| 456992 | leopardi |
+--------+----------+
1 row in set (0.21 sec)

Maybe your "what it is now" value actually DOES already belong to another
user, and we have a bug that mistakenly sent the email indicating it was
changed, instead of throwing an error? To know we'd have to know what
value you tried changing it to. Please email that information to Pater, at
pater@slashdot.org.