Topic on Extension talk:ConfirmAccount

I'm using ConfirmAccount and ConfirmEdit extensions. Right now, when a user requests an account, they get an email asking them to confirm their email address. After clicking it on, the admin will get a notification of a new account request. After admin creates thew new account, the password is sent to the user. However, there account is still marked as not having email confirmed. In the database, the user entry for that user in the user table shows the field 'user_email_authenticated' as null while this should have a timestamp.

If the user goes through their preferences, it still says "Your email address is not yet confirmed. No email will be sent for any of the following features." If they click on that, they get yet another email asking them to confirm their email address. Eventually, this then confirms their email address and updates the database.

Why is there a need for double email confirmation? Versions: MediaWiki: 1.36.2 Confirm User Accounts: – (3195e5a) 11:46, October 7, 2021 Confirm Edit: 1.6.0

I've implemented this quick fix in my localsettings.php.

# Automatically set the user's email as validated since they have to get validated through ConfirmAccount.
# Must have "$wgGroupPermissions['*']['createaccount'] = false;" per ConfirmAccount extension.
$wgHooks['LocalUserCreated'][] = 'onLocalUserCreatedEmailAutoConfirm';
function onLocalUserCreatedEmailAutoConfirm( $user, $autocreated ) {
   $user->confirmEmail();
   $user->SaveSettings();
}

This should work since anon users can't create accounts, only admins. This also fixed the issue of the user being redirected to create an account after changing their temporary password.

Automatically set the user's email as validated since they have to get validated through ConfirmAccount.

1. Must have "$wgGroupPermissions['*']['createaccount'] = false;" per ConfirmAccount extension.

$wgHooks['LocalUserCreated'][] = 'onLocalUserCreatedEmailAutoConfirm'; function onLocalUserCreatedEmailAutoConfirm( $user, $autocreated ) {

  $user->confirmEmail();
  $user->SaveSettings();

}

Thank you for such a simple fix -- this has been annoying me for years!

Hopefully it'll get wrapped into the extension itself.