https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=46010

Matthew Flaschen <[email protected]> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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             Status|UNCONFIRMED                 |RESOLVED
                 CC|                            |[email protected]
         Resolution|---                         |WONTFIX

--- Comment #1 from Matthew Flaschen <[email protected]> ---
This is deliberate.  The code explicitly says:

"// Don't reveal whether or not an email address is in use"

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/gitweb?p=mediawiki/core.git;a=blob;f=includes/specials/SpecialPasswordReset.php;h=90b0ac802cf11272be43a2b6c72631aca12b1023;hb=HEAD#l185

Many sites work like this (including on password reset screens).  Some sites
don't reveal either the list of usernames or the list of emails.

On MW, the list of users is public (Special:ListUsers), but email addresses are
private.  We should not make it possible for someone to check whether an email
is registered.

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