---
title: "E04092 — EmailTemplateContactAmbiguous"
description: "More than one contact matches a recipient email address."
canonical: "https://bird.com/docs/api/errors/E04092"
---

# E04092 — EmailTemplateContactAmbiguous

More than one contact matches a recipient email address.

- **HTTP status**: `422`
- **Type**: `validation_error`
- **Name**: `EmailTemplateContactAmbiguous`

## What to do

Update the duplicate contacts in this workspace so the recipient address identifies one contact, then retry the send.

Operations that resolve this:

- [List contacts](/docs/api/reference/list-contacts)
- [Update a contact](/docs/api/reference/update-contact)

## Related

- [E04xxx — Email sending & delivery](/docs/api/errors/E04xxx): every code in this range
- [Errors](/docs/api/errors): the full wire contract, status mapping, and error catalog
- [Error handling](/docs/guides/errors): branching on `type` and `code`, validation details, and `vendor_code`

## Related resources

- [Should I use a Bird SDK or call the API directly?](/explained/platform/should-i-use-an-sdk-or-call-the-api-directly) (answer)
- [Build your first integration](/learn/paths/integration) (course)
- [Send your first email](/docs/get-started/send-your-first-email) (docs)

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