Made some changes to the missing-email submission handling. This may have fixed the creation of author records containing 'none' email entries, but as I've not been able to reproduce the issue, this is uncertain. Next is to build an email notification assert statement to help capture information if this happens.

- Legacy-Id: 12898

ietf/submit/utils.py

@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 import os
 import datetime
+from unidecode import unidecode
 
 from django.conf import settings
 
@@ -19,7 +20,6 @@ from ietf.person.models import Person, Email
 from ietf.community.utils import update_name_contains_indexes_with_new_doc
 from ietf.submit.mail import announce_to_lists, announce_new_version, announce_to_authors
 from ietf.submit.models import Submission, SubmissionEvent, Preapproval, DraftSubmissionStateName
-from ietf.utils import unaccent
 from ietf.utils.log import log
 
 
@@ -387,23 +387,25 @@ def get_person_from_name_email(name, email):
     return None
 
 def ensure_person_email_info_exists(name, email):
-    person = get_person_from_name_email(name, email)
+    addr = email
+    email = None
+    person = get_person_from_name_email(name, addr)
 
     # make sure we have a person
     if not person:
         person = Person()
         person.name = name
-        person.ascii = unaccent.asciify(person.name)
+        person.ascii = unidecode(person.name)
         person.save()
 
     # make sure we have an email address
-    if email:
+    if addr:
         active = True
-        addr = email.lower()
+        addr = addr.lower()
     else:
         # we're in trouble, use a fake one
         active = False
-        addr = u"unknown-email-%s" % person.plain_name().replace(" ", "-")
+        addr = u"unknown-email-%s" % person.plain_ascii().replace(" ", "-")
 
     try:
         email = person.email_set.get(address=addr)