[Mediawiki-l] Email approval before login

[Mischa Peters]

Hi Rob,

> You can instruct MediaWiki to require verification of email addresses
> entered in user preferences. With a little hacking, you could modify
> the login functions in User.php to check the user's validation hash,
> and see if they've been validated. If not, then you would reject
> login.

Thanx for that. I will have a look at the User.php.
Do you know of the top of your head what the string is that I need to verify?

I am a little surprised that this is not default functionality. :)

Mischa