Yes, I think I second William's idea to set a random email address for your site (xxxxxx@example.com). You could also set the type for the email address field to be hidden which means it is still required but has a default value. Also, the random value should not be repeated as drupal will consider it to be 2 accounts with same email address and will not permit it. However, I still think this is not the best option and D7 should incorporate a facility to allow registration without specifying email address (the use case is not wide but still exists)

On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 1:17 AM, William Smith william.darren@gmail.comwrote:

I believe I've done this in the past by implementing a form_alter in a custom module and setting the email field to a random string of characters.

William

On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 2:34 PM, Luke drupal@lists.tacticus.com wrote:

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I've googled a bit for this. Other than some old patching-core discussions from 2008, I didn't come up with anything.

The ability to create accounts without email addresses in D6 is required. Is there a module with this capability? It would have to permit accounts to get email addresses later (although we could do that via CCK if necessary).

This needs to be a regular module, not a core patch or hack of any kind, as I will not be maintaining this site going forward, and short of upgrades, I do not expect the future maintainer to be capable of migrating custom code.

Thanks

Luke

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