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by shadowgovt 1864 days ago
That's a bad bug on their end. It implies that if a user's user-agent crashes (or they kick the power plug out of the wall at the wrong time), they can get into this state.

As a general principle, it should be impossible for a client to "half-configure" an account; the Internet isn't designed to be reliable enough to support guarantees that all the relevant messages get sent and received.