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where is the allow/disallow use of email address for registraion

I have looked and looked and I can not locate the admin setting that determines "reuse" of  already used email address for forum registration.
Would someone please "point" it out to me?

Thank you.

Re: where is the allow/disallow use of email address for registraion

Reply #1 –

Simply there is none, it's a very major security issue to re-use an already used email address.
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Re: where is the allow/disallow use of email address for registraion

Reply #3 –

Not really, I think you should read it again O:-)
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Re: where is the allow/disallow use of email address for registraion

Reply #4 –

Using the IP would mean you limit the access to the account. If I go from the US to Asia, I probably wouldn't have access to my account. That's a problem.

You can always hide your email address. In fact, that's the default.

You can always create a mod so it works your way. If you need any hooks we can always add them. Feel free to ask if you need help.

Re: where is the allow/disallow use of email address for registraion

Reply #5 –

However, the action=reminder would be broken anyways, and it's definitely a security issue.
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Re: where is the allow/disallow use of email address for registraion

Reply #6 –

Quote from: derived – go get another free email account and you won't have to deal with the flaws
great coding fix, relaying on a trouble 3rd party
That's not really something to "fix", the idea is really to have 1 email => 1 account, full stop.
And, as far as I know, it's the solution for... 99.9% of the websites out there.
I am in Italy, I have seen IPs that range from 2.something (mainly mobile devices) to 97.something (or more), rely on any range of IP to bind a user to a specific account would make ElkArte completely useless.

If you have any viable solution feel free to propose it.
Bugs creator.
Features destroyer.
Template killer.

Re: where is the allow/disallow use of email address for registraion

Reply #7 –

Quote from: emanuele – That's not really something to "fix", the idea is really to have 1 email => 1 account, full stop.
And, as far as I know, it's the solution for... 99.9% of the websites out there.
+1
sorry for my bad english

Re: where is the allow/disallow use of email address for registraion

Reply #8 –

And if you really need to have the same email, in that messages go to the same address, you can use the gmail trick.

As far as gmail is concerned,
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auser@gmail.com, a.user@gmail.com, auser+admin@gmail.com and a.user+anotheramin@googlemail.com
All resolve to the same inbox.  We never prevented this perversion, although the code is in place to do so.