Exclude Duplicate Email Addresses

Altru allows duplicate email addresses for constituents. To prevent duplicate email addresses during a merge task, select Exclude duplicate email addresses.

Note: If you select Exclude duplicate email addresses, the Email addresses merge task runs slower because it compares each source email address to each target email address.

The Email addresses merge task regards email addresses as duplicates when they have the same values in the Type and Email address fields.

If a field is blank on the source and the target email address, the merge task ignores it. If the merge task excludes a source email address, the merge task does not delete it. Instead, the Email addresses merge task does not associate it with the target. The excluded email address remains in Altru until the you delete the source constituent. If you select Delete source constituent when you configure the merge process, the merge removes the email address along with the source.

Note: The merge task also updates sales order email addresses if the merge task deletes duplicates that appear on sales orders.