element-hq / element-hq/element-web
Unhelpful error messages when inviting an email address and you don't have an identity server configured
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Description
### Steps to reproduce
1. Use a session with no ID server configured
2. Click "Start chat"
3. Enter email address in search box (as the dialog suggests, cf #14699)
4. Press Go
Alternatively:
1. Use a session with no ID server configured
2. In an existing room, click "Invite"
3. Enter email address in search box (as the dialog suggests, cf #14699)
4. Press Go
### Outcome
#### What did you expect?
Some sort of prompt telling me I can't invite email addresses without an identity server
#### What happened instead?
or
Neither of these errors are at all helpful. "Invites by email can only be sent one at a time" is particularly confusing, given I was in fact only inviting one user.
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### Browser information
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### URL for webapp
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### Application version
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### Homeserver
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### Will you send logs?
No
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