Registration works, but getting error "Email already taken"

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Hi all!

I’m playing around with authentication and I’ve noticed a weird behavior in my registration function.
When posting the request for the registration endpoint, the user account does get created, but I get an error Email already taken, even though there is no user with that email. If that was the case, the error would be Email is already taken.

Below is my code. The fields language, country and currency are relational fields and trying registration takes 3 seconds. If I don’t send any values for these relational fields in the post request, the registration is quicker / the error appears faster. Is that normal?

// in Next.js: /pages/api/auth/register.js

export default async (req, res) => {

    const {email, password, username, language, country, currency} = req.body;

    if (req.method === "POST") {
        const response = await axios.post(`${API_URL}/api/auth/local/register`,{
            email, password, username, language, country, currency
        })
        .then((response)=> {
            return res.status(200).json({message: "Check your email and confirm the registration"})
        })
        .catch((error)=> {
            if (!error.response.data.error.message) {
                return res.status(500).json({message: "Internal server error"})
            } else {
                const msg = error.response.data.error.message;
                return res.status(403).json({message: msg})
            }
        })
    }

}

So, why do I get the error Email already taken upon registering and is it normal that registration takes longer if you set relations?

Running Strapi locally.

Appreciate any help, thanks!

2

I figured out what caused this.
I hadn’t set up an email provider. And using Strapi’s default configuration didn’t work on localhost. I’ve now set up the Sendgrid provider and everything works as expected.