Accounts blackholed when instance email is not working
Accounts blackholed when instance email is not working
When the following is true:
- User attempts to create an account
- Instance has "require registration application" enabled
- Instance's email is not working/unavailable
the application seems to get lost, the user never receives an email (even after email functionality is restored), nor can that email/username be used going forward to re-submit the account creation request.
Additionally, since the user never verifies their email, the instance admin never gets a registration application.
It's not currently an issue for me, however, would it be possible to delete these ghost users? If you lookup the profile/username in the database, you can view it via the web UI, but the only options appear to be either blocking the user or banning them. It might be good to be able to completely delete the accounts, no?
I caught this in testing as well today.
That said i removed my test accounts in SQL directly
DELETE FROM local_user WHERE person_id='someusernumer'
Where someusernumber is their actual ID.
Used this thread as a resource:https://normalcity.life/post/13018
Awesome, that’s super helpful, thank you!
I guess I’ll also look into an SMTP relay. That could be useful I guess.
In my tshooting today, i dont think it will help. I think the error is hitting in the lemmy app container, and not getting passed to my postfix relay. So even if i say...setup postfix as a dedicated relay (which I have done plenty of), not sure it would help.
I put more here: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ansible/issues/105
I was actually testing email, when I stumbled on this. When i tried another account with the same address I got an error that the address already exists. Prompting me to go cleanup my DB and use something else to test email realy (forgotten passwords in my case).