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I'm wanting to set-up a generic (ideally free) email address for our bowls club that can be accessed by several people. Mainly so access doesn't get lost should one member who created it depart, never to be seen again, taking the log-in details with them! Which is the way of things now with the clubs Facebook page.
So I want to create a new email, and then create a new Facebook page using that email address.
2FA gets in the way of this as it's generally tied into someones phone or personal email for authentication.
...or any other ideas!?
Hotmail has never asked me for anything other than password
2FA using Google Authenticator... if you want lots of people to have access.
What you probably actually want is to have an admin account that can reallocate email addresses/reset passwords when say "treasurer@mybowlingclub.org.uk" leaves. Then you can still have 2FA on the individual accounts. Sharing an email address and passwords is a bodge. If its just to manage a facebook page then I'm 99% sure you can add multiple admins so unless they all leave at the same time you are fine.
At 55 I'm the young whipper-snapper in the club! Google Authenticator would be way to technical for them! 🤣
It needs to be simple.
surely if you're a proper club rather than just a bunch of mates, there's all kind of things you have to account for, GDPR, data security etc, sharing passwords is a really terrible idea as you cannot account for who has access.
Maybe just use a WhatsApp group chat or something?
yahoo doesn't have 2fa on sign in as far as I recall
surely if you’re a proper club rather than just a bunch of mates, there’s all kind of things you have to account for, GDPR, data security etc, sharing passwords is a really terrible idea as you cannot account for who has access.
Good point - this would be purely to help set-up a new Facebook page and possibly Insta page.
All club correspondence is through the Chairman and Secretary.
I'd just want it so the email log-in could be put in club records so they don't get lost.
"Google Authenticator would be way to technical for them"
That's just laziness/ignorance frankly, 5 minutes showing how to would be more than enough for intelligent people to grasp it.
"That’s just laziness/ignorance frankly" Have you met the average Bowling Club admin team? I have recently been in touch with my dads old bowling clubs trying to get some photos sent over, and its not an easy task.
You have to consider deliverability... do you want emails sent from this email address to actually get to everyone? Shared email servers or services without 2FA will be getting added to blacklists regularly. If that doesn't matter to you... crack on. Being a bowling club... you're still going to get locked out somehow... the oldies always find a way.
“That’s just laziness/ignorance frankly” Have you met the average Bowling Club admin team? I have recently been in touch with my dads old bowling clubs trying to get some photos sent over, and its not an easy task.
Yet they can seemingly use email and Facebook.
Facebook is beyond 90% of them! I'm just trying to use it to drum up more (younger) members.
The chairman can't even remember who set up the old Facebook page and the last entry was four years ago.
do you want emails sent from this email address to actually get to everyone?
No club correspondence will be sent from it. I just want to set up a new Facebook page and don't want it tied to my personal email address.
another approach might be to have a single account but use delegation to add/remove members when needed?
https://support.google.com/mail/answer/9259857?hl=en-GB#delegate
Here's a question.
Does anyone other than you care?
YOU want to use social media to attract younger members. If it were tied to your email address and you were hit by a bus tomorrow, would not being able to recover the Facebook password be a calamity for them? Because that's what you're describing here, if I've got this right? You don't want an email address to actually send and receive email, you want it as an anchor point when setting up a new Facebook page?
In which case, the solution perhaps would be to set up a group or a business page and have a couple of people designated as Admin. No new email accounts required. You're thinking of the club as being a person named Bowling Club, it isn't.
Does anyone other than you care?
Yes - they want new members that are new to the game, not just nicking them off other clubs.
In which case, the solution perhaps would be to set up a group or a business page and have a couple of people designated as Admin.
Obvious is obvious now- thanks! Don't know why I didn't think of that! 👍
This sounds like a bad idea security-wise to me.
better might be to get a domain. Establish an admin protocol. Then determine some mail forwarding rules. Your name here and others do this fairly cheaply.
or consider auto forwarding from the bowls club email address to the necessary recipients?
🤷🏻♂️ what you mean by ‘younger’. 50-60? This is the likely Facebook audience these days isn’t it?
maybe you could shoot some TikToks for younger folks?
You don't need to share the email and password to use a FB page by more than one person. Just create the page and then add others as admins via their own accounts.
Gmail doesn't need 2FA, it's optional but again it doesn't sound like you actually need that.