Access grants and email aliases

[micah_gideon]

I'm a professor and I have multiple email addresses through my school. I have registered (and confirmed) them with my Bitbucket account. I try to get my students to share their projects with the primary, but sometimes they do not⎯they use one of my aliases. When this happens, I am unable to accept their access grants and must ask them to re-send. Isn't the alias system in place to handle just this sort of circumstance?

Please help me to understand this.

[Ana Retamal]

Hi @micah_gideon, welcome to the Community! 

The alias won't work for that, invitations must be set to a primary account. If they're not, you'll be asked to create a new Bitbucket account with the address used for the alias (so they'll be converted into a primary account).

The purpose of email aliases is to let people find your commits using an email which is not your main address, you can read more about it at Set email aliases and Map existing commits to username aliases.

Hope that explains, let us know if you have any other questions.

Best regards,

Ana