Allow multiple accounts with same email address

Matalina

I'm looking to migrate from mybb to flarum. But we currently allow multiple accounts with the same email address. This is on purpose.

We also link accounts so that a user can easily switch between accounts. (this would also need to be handled in order to convert fully)

Matalina

I suppose I should have asked. Is this possible out of the box, or is there an extension to allow it?

clarkwinkelmann

Flarum doesn't support it out of the box, and I don't think an extension exists for this at this time. But technically it should be feasible.

If an email provider supports aliases, like with +, anyone could create any number of forum accounts by using a different alias each time. This will work on any vanilla Flarum installation.

If an extension implements re-usable identical emails, some other extensions and Flarum features might break because email is expected to be unique, though an implementation might be able to use hidden aliases behind the scene to identify an account, and strip that alias when passing the email address to the mailer.

luceos

I've done several implementations for clients where the email address could be shared between accounts. Log in then would require just the username. A dropdown toggle between accounts with the same email address isn't too hard to implement.

clarkwinkelmann If an extension implements re-usable identical emails, some other extensions and Flarum features might break because email is expected to be unique

Although I originally shared that fear. I think that, for Flarum, it really doesn't matter that much except on the level of authentication - which can be modified. Flarum and most extensions actually relate to users using their id's more than their email addresses (except for the Email Conversations extension perhaps) and previous implementations have not shown any issues so far (but that could be related to the set of extensions in use).

@Matalina posting underServices would allow people to promote their business and services.

Matalina

Thanks. That's what I wanted to know. If I convert, I'd have to have those two options in place or at least a way to allow a user to change/add display names on a per post basis.