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I noticed that version 2.1.2 removed the “allow duplicate email address in member accounts” feature.

Is there an extension or hack that can restore this feature?

Nothing on this after 9 days?

Have a sort of inverse issue: need to be able to assign more than 1 email address to each user account.
Is there a way to currently do this?

EDIT: Just noticed this is in general discussion. In that case OP seems to want to wait. 😉

Hi,
I would also need this feature back!
It’s not present in v 2.1.4 beta. is there a hidden config-var to get it back?

I found two functions in the core files that can be commented out to skip checking for duplicate email addresses.

In the file: /system/expressionengine/libraries/Validate.php
Comment out the following code (lines 423-428):

/** -------------------------------------
/**  Duplicate emails?
/** -------------------------------------*/

$query = $this->EE->db->query("SELECT COUNT(*) as count FROM exp_members WHERE email = '".$this->EE->db->escape_str($this->email)."'");

if ($query->row('count')  > 0)
{
    $this->errors[] = $this->EE->lang->line('email_taken');
}

In file /system/expressionengine/libraries/EE_Form_validation.php
Comment out the following code (lines 394-401):

// Duplicate emails?

$this->CI->db->where('email', $str);
$count = $this->CI->db->count_all_results('members');

if ($count > 0)
{                            
    $this->set_message('valid_user_email', $this->CI->lang->line('email_taken'));      
    return FALSE;
}

There are security risks for sure. Use at your own risk, and happy hacking.

I tried the above hack and it does not work.

I can click the button to register.  Although I do not get any errors, I am just redirected to the home page and the member is NOT registered.

ee: v2.3.1 and Solspace User