[Mediawiki-l] Email approval before login

[Brion Vibber]

Anthony DiPierro wrote:
> Is there any check in mediawiki to determine whether or not the email
> address you give it is actually an email address of yours?  I think
> this is what was meant by "bogus accounts", someone who put
> "whatever at example.com" or something like that.

If e-mail confirmation is on, yes: e-mail functions will be disabled until you
go through the confirmation step (it emails you a code, you visit the magic link).

(It's not on on Wikipedia at the moment; we should take care of that sometime.)

-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)

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