Registered users...

[mywaytoo]

Since you changed the registration process so that emails are no longer sent to admin when a new user registers, I am beginning to struggle with recognising new members as the numbers increase. Surely I am not the only admin who needs to know who are the newly registered users...

It would help if I could sort the Registered Users group by Date of Registration... and put all new users at the top of the list.

It would help if I could sort the All Users group by Date of Registration... leaving Unregistered users at the bottom of the list...
BUT this is a problem for me... because one of my early users didn't register, so is still Unregistered, but is a valid member and I have moved her, along with all the others to the Members group.
However, I have noticed that there is a new member in the All Users group, who is not in the Registered Users group... so is therefore Unregistered. Why would anyone want to join my knit4dolls Forum as Unregistered? Maybe by accident? But I thought that you had changed things so that users had to register... ??? Any ideas???

[Peter <Nabble>]

Anne, e-mails were never sent to admins when a new user registers. Nothing changed.

[mywaytoo]

Peter <Nabble> wrote

Anne, e-mails were never sent to admins when a new user registers. Nothing changed.

Really???

GregChapman wrote

Therefore I suspect that within applications that are not mail lists/mail list archives the Permissions screen column headed "Authenticated" should be headed "Registered", and will only grant those permissions to those that have confirmed their address by clicking the link in the confirmation email.

This is why in my first message in this little cluster I claim that authenticated and registered are interchangeable - I was only thinking in terms of the Permissions screen. This is consistent with my belief that my "real user" never did respond to the confirmation email. The other auto-generated user address still remains a mystery!

Greg must be wrong too then...

[Peter <Nabble>]

He is talking about the confirmation e-mail the new users receive. They must follow a link sent to their e-mails to confirm the subscription. It has nothing to do with the admin receiving e-mails.

[mywaytoo]

This is what I would receive...

[GregChapman]

That's the email an admin gets when a user fills in the form they must complete to view a forum to which they don't have view rights.

Have you relaxed your view permissions recently and that's why you are no longer getting such emails?

[mywaytoo]

Grrrrh... This is the sort of email that I, as admin, want to receive when new users register.

GregChapman wrote

That's the email an admin gets when a user fills in the form they must complete to view a forum to which they don't have view rights.

Greg... Do you mean a user tries to write to a Forum to which they don't have rights?

[GregChapman]

mywaytoo wrote

Why would anyone want to join my knit4dolls Forum as Unregistered? Maybe by accident? But I thought that you had changed things so that users had to register... ??? Any ideas???

Your unregistered user will be a subscriber, not a full registered forum user.

All registration does is link a username to an email address, allowing a user to make private replies to a poster.

Forum users need to register to post via the web interface, because Nabble needs to hide people's email address behind a username to keep it private when a users wants to post a private message to a poster.

Those who "subscribe" to a forum or topic rather than register, can only post to your forum via email and cannot make private replies. For subscribers, a username has no function as they have no way of making private replies. (They have to register to make a private reply and use the forum interface.)

[GregChapman]

mywaytoo wrote

GregChapman wrote

That's the email an admin gets when a user fills in the form they must complete to view a forum to which they don't have view rights.

Greg... Do you mean a user tries to write to a Forum to which they don't have rights?

That's it! For example, if they have View permission but not Create_topic permission they can't write directly to that forum, but if they try Nabble presents them with a form, which allows them to request those rights. The Gmail dump you posted is such a request from someone who does not currently have the appropriate rights to that forum.

[mywaytoo]

I knew that there was another email...

[GregChapman]

As I understand it, that message is the standard "registration confirmation" message. People who submit an email address (as part of registration) will receive that message. Without clicking the link it contains, they will remain "unregistered" and won't be able to login and post via the forum.

(That assumes your permissions only allow registered users to post. Also, as I said earlier, note that subscribers do not need to register to post, but are restricted to posting via email )

We've also been told that registration links in those emails only have a certain validity period, and a user will need to re-register if they fail to click the link within a few days (forget the number).