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Hi all, I'm using Joomla 1.5.10 and CiviCRM 2.2.2. I need some advise as below:

My site allow Newsletter subscription (free) and Full Membership (paid).

When signing up for Newsletter, the user just need to enter email address, which is then recorded in a Newsletter Group I created in CiviCRM. Newsletter subscriber are not given the option to create an account (in Joomla). Full Membership on the other hand, is required to create an account (in Joomla), which is used to log in and access membership only content on our site. To allow the registration of either options, I created two Contribution pages, linked to the front-end of Joomla.

My problem is when an existing Newsletter Subscriber wants to become a Full Member. If the person try to register through the Contribution page for registering Full Member, CiviCRM will reject and say that the email of the person is already in the system, and won't allow the person to register.

How do you suggest we handle the above?

Thanks,