Pain point · Reliability & bugs · Causes churn
Enabling email auth caused rate limits on phone OTP traffic
1 source thread · first seen 2022-12
Summary
With both email and phone providers on, a spike in SMS OTP traffic returned 429 errors even though email was unused. Disabling email auth fixed it.
- Affects
- Apps using SMS OTP
- Workaround
- Disable the email auth provider
Evidence
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“Having e-mail auth provider enabled gives a 429 rate limit exceeded, despite using only Phone auth provider”