Saturday, 13 June 2009

Facebook rejects my email address

Facebook thinks my email address is invalid when I try to sign up for an account. I'm getting an error message saying: "Please enter a valid email address". Funny, since I've been using that email address for some years now:


Update 25th Nov 2009

Found this in their help section:

Unfortunately we do not support email addresses with generic prefixes (e.g. info@, webmaster@ etc.). Since email addresses of this nature are typically used for organizations and businesses, we do not allow them to be used for personal Facebook accounts. You will need to use a personal email address that does not contain this type of prefix. There are no exceptions to this rule.
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5 comments:

  1. Anonymous13 November 2009 at 15:32

    FB's doing this to me too...did you solve your problem?

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  2. Roger Karlsson25 November 2009 at 13:38

    Unfortunately no. Facebook still rejects my email address.

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  3. Anonymous22 March 2010 at 15:50

    And my two addresses, one with gmail and the other with yahoo, are both rejected

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  4. Anonymous22 June 2010 at 04:23

    Mine is also rejected and now Facebook has also flagged my alternative email address. I think they don't like personal domains.

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  5. Anonymous2 January 2012 at 15:24

    this is so silly...

    If you are using addresses like mail@MyDoma.in, add an alternative address that just forwards to your email account.

    example:
    mail@MyDoma.in [IMAP Account]
    post@MyDoma.in [Forward to mail@MyDoma.in]

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