Proposal: Email Registration

Abstract

This is a proposal to support E-mail Account Activation in Roller. If activation is enabled, then user accounts must be activated via e-mail before they can be used.

Requirements

• Support e-mail activation of new user accounts
• E-mail message must be I18N/localizable
• E-mail activation must be optional

Issues

No major issues to be considered.

Design

List and describe new manager methods, Struts actions, JSP pages, macros, etc.

• New properties
  • user.account.activation.enabled=true
  • user.account.activation.code.length=128
  • user.account.activation.code.generation.retry=3
  • user.account.activation.mail.from=activate@localhost
• Code in UserNewAction.java to send activation email
• New method un UserManager to retrieve user via activation code:

      public UserData getUserByActivationCode(String activationCode) throws RollerException;
  

• New field in rolleruser table:

      activationcode varchar(255)
  

See also attachment provided by Sedat, which provides detailed list of changes.

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