Allow email to be used for multiple accounts

[ashkir]

When helping a friend convert her forum (RPG) to IPB we ran into the issue that our hundred accounts are now suddenly 15 due to all the mergers. This basically kills the entire spirit of the product for RPGs and I cannot think of a way to allow the same email to be used a half dozen times or more. Back on a few other competitor services we've been able to do this without a fuss. This is the first time we've even heard of the issue (and we didn't see any sort of notification about it). IPB is beautiful and easy to use, we love it. But, this just made the software look to us in a different light.

I was planning on using: 

As this is exactly what I want. I also disclosed this in my initial discussion with sales. Is there an option somewhere where I can enable multiple users to same email? Does IPB 4 get rid of the requirement? 

Any help or workarounds would be appreciated, preferably easier on the user the better. We cannot compromise on the fact that users must have multiple accounts. 

PS: Your sales guy was kickass in answering questions! I like him! 

[Nathan Explosion]

If the email system on the recipient domain supports the addition of "+something" to the email address then you can use multiple variations of the same address.

Example: gmail allows the use of "+something"

Main email address: my_email_address@gmail.com

Variations:

my_email_address+something@gmail.com

my_email_address+somethingelse@gmail.com

my_email_address+somethingdifferent@gmail.com

my_email_address+somethingsomethingdarkside@gmail.com

All of the above email address variations will deliver to my_email_address@gmail.com

[MADMAN32395]

I agree with Nathan as well. hMailserver, MS Exchange and other popular mail servers also support this as well. I have a few email+something@domain.tld

 

so the +something addresses would probably be the better solution. 

[ashkir]

Thanks guys. It really sucks that we have to use a workaround but that workaround is perfect. Thank you. I'm considering disabling email checks entirely now too. 

 

Does yahoo support this as well?

[Nathan Explosion]

No idea, don't use yahoo - set up a yahoo account and test it out.

Regarding "considering disabling email checks entirely" - how are you going to achieve that? The email is a required item in registration, and it is a unique item. To my knowledge, you cannot turn that off.

[Nathan Explosion]

Just tested out sending to a friend's yahoo account - no, yahoo doesn't support the "+something"

Quote

Technical details of permanent failure:
Google tried to deliver your message, but it was rejected by the server for the recipient domain yahoo.com

The error that the other server returned was:
554 delivery error: dd This user doesn't have a yahoo.com account

 

[Claire Field]

As I said in the other thread, contact @Adriano Faria.