Mahara

Users can have no email address

Bug #907903 reported by Kristina Hoeppner on 2011-12-22

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #1045563: Email address in the 'Required profile fields' form must be validated. Edit Remove

This bug affects 1 person

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	Mahara	In Progress	Medium	Unassigned	Mahara 1.7.0

Bug Description

This may be tied to bug 548069. However, it seems like that also newer accounts, created after the fix was released, on an updated Mahara, could still have no email address associated with them.

Richard said this might be the case due to how accounts were created, e.g. if LDAP didn't bring that information along. I think a user should always have an email address in Mahara. Otherwise, he can't receive email notifications or changes to his account if he changes institutions (and auth methods).

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Richard Mansfield (richard-mansfield) wrote on 2012-01-04:

In addition to LDAP, I think this can happen during SSO from Moodle SSO, and probably also Leap2a import.

Changed in mahara:
status:	New → Triaged
importance:	Undecided → Medium

Kristina Hoeppner (kris-hoeppner) on 2012-07-05

Changed in mahara:
milestone:	none → 1.6.0

Son Nguyen (ngson2000) on 2012-07-26

Changed in mahara:
assignee:	nobody → Son Nguyen (ngson2000)
status:	Triaged → In Progress

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Son Nguyen (ngson2000) wrote on 2012-09-03:

After a thorough investigation about these authentication plugin and import methods, I think it is ok to create new account without primary email address as this mandatory field will be filled by the user when he/she first attempt to log in.

What we need is checking the validation of this email address.

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Son Nguyen (ngson2000) wrote on 2012-09-06:

I would replace this bug by the one: https://bugs.launchpad.net/mahara/+bug/1045563

Kristina Hoeppner (kris-hoeppner) on 2012-09-10