# Email address is case-sensitive in first run install setup
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/email-address-is-case-sensitive-in-first-run-install-setup/44866
**Category:** Bug
**Created:** [May 26, 2016, 7:41pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/email-address-is-case-sensitive-in-first-run-install-setup/44866 "2016-05-26T19:41:19Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@mholt](https://meta.discourse.org/u/mholt)
#### Post date: [May 26, 2016, 7:41pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/email-address-is-case-sensitive-in-first-run-install-setup/44866/1 "2016-05-26T19:41:19Z")
When using the Discourse 1-click app on DigitalOcean, and going through the initial setup over SSH, I entered my email address like I do everywhere:
```
MyEmail@example.com
```
Then I signed up the first account using the exact same characters:
```
MyEmail@example.com
```
I was surprised when, after activating the account, I had no access to the admin panel.
Starting over and entering this as my email:
```
myemail@example.com
```
worked. Perhaps email address should _not_ be a case-sensitive comparison. [See prior issue](https://meta.discourse.org/t/first-account-has-no-access-to-admin-panel/44854)
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [May 26, 2016, 8:04pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/email-address-is-case-sensitive-in-first-run-install-setup/44866/2 "2016-05-26T20:04:56Z")
Aha, if that’s a bug we should fix it cc: @sam.
This would be specific to first signup, as emails are NOT case sensitive everywhere else.
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [May 27, 2016, 2:19am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/email-address-is-case-sensitive-in-first-run-install-setup/44866/3 "2016-05-27T02:19:15Z")
Fixed per:
[https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/bd9bc7918ccf29820415a9c1caa809e797fa6bcc](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/bd9bc7918ccf29820415a9c1caa809e797fa6bcc)
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [May 27, 2016, 2:19am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/email-address-is-case-sensitive-in-first-run-install-setup/44866/4 "2016-05-27T02:19:25Z")