New user emails?
I noticed that Sionnain signed up for an account, but never saw her log in, so I started investigating. Ever since I changed the site so that users must be approved, I never checked to see how it would work. As it turns out, although the site sends you an initial email with your username and password - a new user is NOT notified that their account has been approved! This seems to be a bug of some kind, or an undocumented feature? In any case - it's annoying. Sorry for the inconvenience. Perhaps I can change the site back to a more self service mode once I figure out how to implement the CAPTCHA thing I wrote about someplace else.
PS: I also found out that the email that does go out at account creation has some dribble about being able to log in someplace else also? I dunno what that was all about, and it doesn't seem to be right - so that bit has been removed.
The way I ended up dealing
The way I ended up dealing with this was to just send her an email through the contact module letting her know that she was approved. This is actually not a bad idea, since the administrator has to take an action to approve a new registration anyway and so you're already in the system doing that.
Nate, is there no cap-like
Nate,
is there no cap-like module you can use for verification?
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I've been dealing with
I've been dealing with backing up and restoring the database again locally - as the database grows (and this one is growing at an amazing rate) it becomes more troublesome. I finally got that solved by upgrading phpmyadmin on my laptop, and was able to restore a faily large database (3.3M) whereas my personal site is only 2M and it has three years and about 300 stories more. I think I may have to disable the search module or the revisioning that I enabled. not sure yet - but to your question: the more custom modules we add the harder it is to administer this beast. We still have to get some kind of links database and an events module. We already have custom image and access modules installed, as well as a custom theme. This captcha module actually requires another module! We really have to be careful that we don't get the site into a pickle that we cannot port it somewhere easily, or administer it, back it up, restore it, well - you get the point. I think we really need to decide what are the most critical pieces we need off our list that we can't live without.