# Email field warning

**URL:** <https://www.protaxcommunity.com/t/email-field-warning/3046>\
**Category:** Product Suggestions\
**Created:** [February 28, 2020, 7:31pm UTC](https://www.protaxcommunity.com/t/email-field-warning/3046 "2020-02-28T19:31:48Z")\
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**Author:** ![BertMulderCGA](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/www.protaxcommunity.com/bertmuldercga/32/42_2.png) [@BertMulderCGA](https://www.protaxcommunity.com/u/BertMulderCGA)\
**Post date:** [February 28, 2020, 7:31pm UTC](https://www.protaxcommunity.com/t/email-field-warning/3046/1 "2020-02-28T19:31:48Z")

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At my new firm, they do not want to have the email addresses entered on T1 returns, because of the chance that ‘accidentally’ it would trigger CRA mail to be set to ‘Online Mail’

As such, would be great if we could have a warning in the reverse of ‘no email address has been entered’. An optional one, of course…

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**Author:** ![BertMulderCGA](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/www.protaxcommunity.com/bertmuldercga/32/42_2.png) [@BertMulderCGA](https://www.protaxcommunity.com/u/BertMulderCGA)\
**Post date:** [February 28, 2020, 7:45pm UTC](https://www.protaxcommunity.com/t/email-field-warning/3046/2 "2020-02-28T19:45:37Z")

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Figured out how to do it - a custom field for email, which will warn if it matches a default of blank…reminding you to cut the email and paste it to custom…