Error - This email address is already registered.

6 years 7 months ago #296569 by bins
I have a member who has 2 paid memberships but want to use the same email address.

When using the same (gmail) address, I get:

Error
This email address is already registered.

How can I get around this?

I have seen this post:
www.joomlapolis.com/forum/149-usage/234168-registration-attempt-using-existing-email-address
but do not understand how it cannot be either J! user or CB managing it.

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6 years 7 months ago #296581 by krileon
Joomla doesn't allow duplicate email address or username. They have to be unique. You can try the alias technique below though.

myemail+ALIAS@domain

So for example you'd have the below.

tom+user1@cb.invalid
tom+user2@cb.invalid

Emails should be sent to tom@cb.invalid, but the downside is if both users get emailed then you'll get 2 emails (1 for each user). No idea if this still works though. The below describes it further with additional examples.

www.joomlapolis.com/news/18328-sharing-email-addresses-between-joomla-accounts


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