{"id":2529,"date":"2013-03-26T19:04:18","date_gmt":"2013-03-26T23:04:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com\/support\/2013\/03\/26\/303-allowing-e-mail-re-use-in-phpbb\/"},"modified":"2022-03-11T11:14:28","modified_gmt":"2022-03-11T16:14:28","slug":"allowing-email-reuse-in-phpbb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com\/support\/edu\/phpbb\/allowing-email-reuse-in-phpbb\/","title":{"rendered":"Allowing email reuse in phpBB"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/edu_phpbb_303_email-already-in-use-1-error.png\" rel=\"lightbox-0\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"769\" height=\"419\" src=\"https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/edu_phpbb_303_email-already-in-use-1-error.png\" class=\"optimized-lcp-image\" alt=\"Email already in use error phpBB\" loading=\"eager\" fetchpriority=\"high\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/edu_phpbb_303_email-already-in-use-1-error.png 769w, https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/edu_phpbb_303_email-already-in-use-1-error-300x163.png 300w, https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/edu_phpbb_303_email-already-in-use-1-error-768x418.png 768w\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\"><\/div>\n<p>When adding users to a phpBB forum, when testing or debugging your user registrations, you may run into an errors like the following.<\/p>\n<pre style=\"margin: 5px 0px 5px 20px;width:300px\">The entered email address is already in use.<\/pre>\n<p>This error occurs when you try to enter the same email address multiple times when registering user accounts. When you are running tests on your user registrations and you need to allow multiple email addresses, you can change a setting in phpBB to allow it.  This article will explain how to prevent this by setting the \u201c<em>Allow e-mail address re-use<\/em>\u201d option to <em>Yes<\/em> in phpBB.<br style=\"clear: both;\"><\/p>\n<h2>Allowing Multiple Identical Email Addresses<\/h2>\n<ol class=\"article_list\">\n<li><a href=\"\/support\/edu\/phpbb\/phpbb-login\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click for more information\" rel=\"noopener\">Log into your phpBB Admin Control Panel (ACP)<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/edu_phpbb_303_email-already-in-use-2-board-configuration.png\" rel=\"lightbox-0\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Board configuration phpBB\" class=\"std_ss\" src=\"https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/edu_phpbb_303_email-already-in-use-2-board-configuration.png\" style=\"float: right; margin: 0px 0px 15px 15px;\" title=\"Click here to view the larger image\" width=\"100\"><\/a>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\"><\/div>\n<p>On the general tab, Click the <strong>User registration settings<\/strong> in the <strong>Board Configuration<\/strong>. <br style=\"clear: both;\"> <\/p><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/edu_phpbb_303_email-already-in-use-3-general-options.png\" rel=\"lightbox-0\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Select yes for allow email address reuse phpBB\" class=\"std_ss\" src=\"https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/edu_phpbb_303_email-already-in-use-3-general-options.png\" style=\"float: right; margin: 0px 0px 15px 15px;\" title=\"Click here to view the larger image\" width=\"100\"><\/a>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\"><\/div>\n<p>Click the <strong>Yes<\/strong> radio button next to the \u201c<em>Allow e-mail address re-use\u201d<\/em> option. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Save<\/strong> the changes.<br style=\"clear: both;\"> <\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When adding users to a phpBB forum, when testing or debugging your user registrations, you may run into an errors like the following. The entered email address is already in use. This error occurs when you try to enter the same email address multiple times when registering user accounts. When you are running tests on<a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com\/support\/edu\/phpbb\/allowing-email-reuse-in-phpbb\/\"> Read More ><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-phpbb"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.1.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Allowing email reuse in phpBB | InMotion Hosting<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"To allow multiple email addresses for user registration in phpBB you can set the option to yes. 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