generate confirmation email (done) and require confirmation (not yet done)

[ebarry]

Updated: notification complete, extra confirmation remaining

Registered a new user account "liztester" to see what happens.

Relevant URLs

/https://publiclab.org/signup

PublicLab.org username

liztester

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Chrome Version 48.0.2564.116 (64-bit) Mac OSX 10.11.3

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[jywarren]

Hi, Liz - I don't think we have a confirmation email feature. If you'd like to request we create one, change the name of this issue and perhaps outline what a confirmation email could say. This might also help folks remember their usernames.

[ebarry]

The confirmation email should include the username that the person just created.
Exact wording TBD, but should take into account or possibly influence the messages shown to people upon their first and second log-ins to the site:

1st visit: (see message in yellow)

2nd visit: (see message in yellow)

[jywarren]

Let's start with just a welcome email! Then move on to a confirmation email.

[jywarren]

Solving in #2241 ! This would then follow and connect with spam solutions.

[grvsachdeva]

Any help required here @jywarren @ebarry ? Thanks!

[jywarren]

OK, so the next thought was to require people signing up to click a "this is really me" link in the email to confirm they really own that email. I think this is probably a good idea but defer to @ebarry

[jywarren]

If they logged in using OAuth, they'd be excepted from this requirement, i guess? @SidharthBansal ?

[SidharthBansal]

@jywarren yeah we don't send any welcome emails to new users.
Can you please elaborate?
This is new issue to me.

[jywarren]

We do now, as of #2241 ! 😄

Maybe we should hold off on this for a bit, but the idea is that if users sign up (non-OAuth), they should have to confirm a real email address, otherwise they could sign up with someone else's email, or even have a typo when they initially enter their email.

[SidharthBansal]

You mean Email verification. Great feature

[jywarren]

yeah exactly!

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On Wed, Jul 11, 2018 at 11:50 AM Sidharth Bansal ***@***.***> wrote: You mean Email verification. Great — You are receiving this because you were mentioned. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#378 (comment)>, or mute the thread <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AABfJzpstHn-Xsp-pNV9lW94GiXxSDHKks5uFh6jgaJpZM4Hljv3> .

[grvsachdeva]

We now have welcome email and also confirmation email is in WIP. The updated checklist at #3798. Closing this one. Thanks!

cc/ @ebarry @jywarren