[Mediawiki-l] Email approval before login

[Brion Vibber]

Mischa Peters wrote:
> Hi Brion,
> 
>>> 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.)
> 
> Thanx! :)

Why thanx? We already told you it doesn't do what *you* asked about, which is to
disable editing until they confirm the address. That's why we told you that the
feature you asked for is not present at this time.

-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)

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