# New signup with old email including + doesnt work in rest API

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**Created:** [June 7, 2023, 8:39pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/new-signup-with-old-email-including-doesnt-work-in-rest-api/267594 "2023-06-07T20:39:29Z")\
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**Post date:** [June 7, 2023, 11:00pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/new-signup-with-old-email-including-doesnt-work-in-rest-api/267594/13 "2023-06-07T23:00:17Z")

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> [@hosna](#):
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> yes I can see the normalized email is blocked.

In this case we almost definitely block subaddresses of blocked addresses regardless of the setting as an anti-griefing measure since the normalisation option is not the default.

> [@hosna](#):
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> where should I check

“Only show overridden” in settings. But now I suspect we don’t need to worry about that.

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