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One of my previous energy providers (British Gas, owned by Centrica) didn’t allow an email address to be used for more than one physical address. When I moved
by sigwinch28 3y ago
One of my previous energy providers (British Gas, owned by Centrica) didn’t allow an email address to be used for more than one physical address.
When I moved and tried to “set up” my online account I kept getting HTTP 500s when trying to view details about my current address. On the phone they told me “sorry, you can’t use the same email address for multiple [postal] addresses”, even with closed energy accounts from previous addresses.
- xtracto 3y agoYou could use the +whatever trick. Or if in Gmail, the dot . Trick.
- ooterness 3y agoSadly, there's a lot of companies with misguided email validation. They often insist "+" cannot be used in an email address.
- chii 3y agoluckily, for cases like these, you can add a dot anywhere within the email address before the @ symbol for gmail, and it goes to the same email address as without the dot.
- layer8 3y agoThat’s bad, but is one of the things that aren’t a real problem if you use your own domain for email.