[RFC|Merged] Delete "Confirm e-mail address"

[imkingdavid]

Status? Personally I'm for removing the field, although I won't care too much if it is kept.

[naderman]

We need a patch I guess.

[imkingdavid]

I didn't see a ticket (maybe I missed it) so I created a new one:
http://tracker.phpbb.com/browse/PHPBB3-10535

[*Daniel]

-1 for me.

[XTF]

-1 for me.

Why?

[*Daniel]

-1 for me.

Why?

Because I remenber a time when I wanted to sign up on a forum and because I couldn't wait to start posting I made an error when typing my email address. Now I was lucky that the software had confirm email address and told me to check what I've typed in.

[XTF]

Right. Entering a value twice doesn't guarantee it's right though.
That said, maybe effort should be focused on viewtopic.php?f=108&t=39351 instead.

[Oleg]

-1 for me.

Why?

Because I remenber a time when I wanted to sign up on a forum and because I couldn't wait to start posting I made an error when typing my email address. Now I was lucky that the software had confirm email address and told me to check what I've typed in.

If you enter an incorrect email address you should be able to login with your username and password and change it. If we don't allow this please start a new topic/issue and I believe there is already a relevant topic here on automatically logging users in after registration.

It's the same case as if you entered an email address that is broken (or that the board cannot deliver mail to for whatever reason) two times. You should be able to log in and change it.

[naderman]

Email activation is typically required, so you cannot login until you have clicked a link in the email you never received. Even the auto-login proposal suggests that registration data changes like email changes should only be allowed once the account has been properly activated, so it wouldn't solve that problem. Regardless of all that I do think we should get rid of the duplicate field.

[imkingdavid]

Email activation is typically required, so you cannot login until you have clicked a link in the email you never received. Even the auto-login proposal suggests that registration data changes like email changes should only be allowed once the account has been properly activated, so it wouldn't solve that problem. Regardless of all that I do think we should get rid of the duplicate field.

The pull request is ready and has deleted the field from both the registration form and the profile registration details form. Anything beyond that (e.g. allowing email changes before activation, etc.) would go in another RFC, I think?

Personally, I think there isn't much harm in providing a way to allow an unactivated user to change their entered email address (perhaps a new page could be created to handle that?), but as I said, that is beyond the scope of this RFC.