gabe Posted December 10, 2013 Share Posted December 10, 2013 On my WHMCS installation the user does not get to register, we provide an user account for his company, therefore we give him a login. However, some users have more than one company and they wish to receive their invoices in the same e-mail, but when I try to register I get the following message: Duplicate Email Address How can I allow two logins to have the same e-mail? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hiramvb Posted December 10, 2013 Share Posted December 10, 2013 Hi, You can fix that using this tip: Account 1 email: name@domain.com Account 2 email: name+1@domain.com Account 3 email: name+3@domain.com Just add a text after + and all the accounts will have the same email working. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caminoz74 Posted December 20, 2013 Share Posted December 20, 2013 Hi, Thanks for this if I can get it to work?! I am not quite clear on what you mean by " add a text after +" ?... I have tried this and I just get a bounce back on the email being sent to the address name+1@domain.com i.e. its just trying to send to the email name+1@ not the name@ email.... Appreciate any further clarification Hi,You can fix that using this tip: Account 1 email: name@domain.com Account 2 email: name+1@domain.com Account 3 email: name+3@domain.com Just add a text after + and all the accounts will have the same email working. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caminoz74 Posted December 24, 2013 Share Posted December 24, 2013 bump! any ideas... this really not clear to me but really need it!!! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Si Posted December 24, 2013 Share Posted December 24, 2013 (edited) bump! any ideas... this really not clear to me but really need it!!! You can't. Emails are your unique client account logins. What 'I think' the OP meant was that you could create 'different email addresses' ? that were similar (same domain) for different accounts. I'm not sure how the OP's idea answered your question but the answer (as far as I know) is that you can't do what you are looking to do. (I don't know if you've fully thought through the consequences of what you are trying to do and the confusion it would cause, not only to yourself but also with your customers). The only way for the OP's idea to work would be for the customer to create forwarders of the extra email addresses that would forward emails to the primary mailbox (or for them to create individual mailboxes) with the +1, +2 additions to the prefix and then have individual logins to those mailboxes to retrieve email. (ie, it doesn't answer your question at all). plus, I notice that this was the first and only post made on these forums by the OP. (hmmm). Edited December 24, 2013 by Si 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sfwebhostin Posted December 24, 2013 Share Posted December 24, 2013 Hello, Yes you cant make that work because each user login is called directly from user db and each user has 1 email means repeated email wont be allowed. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TekStorm Inc - James Posted December 24, 2013 Share Posted December 24, 2013 You can't. Emails are your unique client account logins. What 'I think' the OP meant was that you could create 'different email addresses' ? that were similar (same domain) for different accounts. I'm not sure how the OP's idea answered your question but the answer (as far as I know) is that you can't do what you are looking to do. (I don't know if you've fully thought through the consequences of what you are trying to do and the confusion it would cause, not only to yourself but also with your customers). The only way for the OP's idea to work would be for the customer to create forwarders of the extra email addresses that would forward emails to the primary mailbox (or for them to create individual mailboxes) with the +1, +2 additions to the prefix and then have individual logins to those mailboxes to retrieve email. (ie, it doesn't answer your question at all). plus, I notice that this was the first and only post made on these forums by the OP. (hmmm). Plus addressing doesn't mean the creation of separate distinct accounts. The following would all be delivered to a single account (username@example.net): username@example.net username+tag@example.net username+tag2@example.net username+tag3@example.net 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Si Posted December 24, 2013 Share Posted December 24, 2013 Plus addressing doesn't mean the creation of separate distinct accounts. The following would all be delivered to a single account (username@example.net): username@example.net username+tag@example.net username+tag2@example.net username+tag3@example.net I've just tried this to 5 different email services cpanel hosted in the UK, another in the US, plesk (UK) etc and none of them worked. Each returned varying failure messages. (including a BT email address). 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TekStorm Inc - James Posted December 24, 2013 Share Posted December 24, 2013 On cPanel servers, it's not enabled by default; but can be relatively easily though. Mail services such as Gmail natively support it though. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Si Posted December 24, 2013 Share Posted December 24, 2013 On cPanel servers, it's not enabled by default; but can be relatively easily though. Mail services such as Gmail natively support it though. Good luck to anyone who wishes to attempt building their business on this ;-) 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
othellotech Posted December 25, 2013 Share Posted December 25, 2013 However, some users have more than one company and they wish to receive their invoices in the same e-mail Account email address has to be unique per customer. Are you seriously saying they have multiple businesses yet dont have an email address for each ? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R-n-R Posted December 25, 2013 Share Posted December 25, 2013 I fully understand what the OP is asking and needing to do. There is a very simple work around with this. If the client email service has either Forwarder or email Alias service, most all email services do, with exception of Gmail, Hotmail (Outlook.com), Yahoo Mail etc. just do this. In this example the ONE client has Three business's (or three clients he is managing) go to the email service of the client and set up three different email Aliases (in cPanel they are called Forwarders) Lets say the main email box your client is checking is myemail@mybusiness.com Set up the Three Aliases (Forwarders) on ANY domain, but to keep it simple we will use the same domain name here "mybusiness.com" Alias 1: account1@mybusiness.com Forwards to --> myemail@mybusiness.com Alias 2: account2@mybusiness.com Forwards to --> myemail@mybusiness.com Alias 3 account3@mybusiness.com Forwards to --> myemail@mybusiness.com Now you have the three fully working email addresses set up in WHMCS and when WHMCS sends out an email to the account holder they are routed ultimately to myemail@mybusiness.com Of course the username of the email can be anything as long as its unique, doesnt have to be "account1", "account2" etc. Hope that helps. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
itomic Posted January 23, 2014 Share Posted January 23, 2014 Account email address has to be unique per customer. Are you seriously saying they have multiple businesses yet dont have an email address for each ? We have the real situation where we have separate businesses in WHMCS (all owned by the same group company, as it happens) where they invoice through/via the same person or company. So it's not that the separate business don't have different email addresses, but their common invoicing person or company only has one. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scurrell Posted January 23, 2014 Share Posted January 23, 2014 We have the real situation where we have separate businesses in WHMCS (all owned by the same group company, as it happens) where they invoice through/via the same person or company. So it's not that the separate business don't have different email addresses, but their common invoicing person or company only has one. Just add the common invoicing person as a contact on each account, and make them the billing contact. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sahostking Posted January 23, 2014 Share Posted January 23, 2014 I would recommend you try to stick to one email address rather than the same one on various accounts. Going to be confusing search for things if a query comes in. Just my opinion. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
itomic Posted January 23, 2014 Share Posted January 23, 2014 Just add the common invoicing person as a contact on each account, and make them the billing contact. We have a big annoying challenge with this... Our cloud accounting software is http://www.xero.com, and very good it is too. We're working (painfully slowly, as resources allow) towards syncing the two: https://www.edgehosting.co.uk/whmcs-xero-addon/ In the first instance this means pushing contact records out of WHMCS and into Xero. But the sync addon will only push the primary contact record from WHMCS into Xero. And seeing as the most important thing to Xero is "who do I invoice?" therefore we have no choice but to make the primary contact record the invoicing contact record in WHMCS. Rock <> Hard Place 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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