[clue-admin] User setup for "member" accounts

[Jeff Cann]

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On Thursday 30 December 2004 11:13 am, Jed S. Baer wrote:
> Collins Richey wrote:
> > 1. Maintaining email aliases. Just as we don't provide login accounts
> > for members, I recomment that we NOT provide an external means to
> > update the aliases file. We can provide an online form that submits a
> > request to the appropriate admin (or group of admins).
>
> Easily enough handled with the existing contact form. Request goes to the
> sysadmin or membership e-mail, and I can even toss in a generated subject
> line, but that's just frosting on the cake.

Perhaps I should have defined specifically what I meant by 'setting their 
email alias'.  I wasn't precise.   

I meant to say that we should 'allow users to change the forwarding address of 
their clue.denver.co.us email address without sys admin intervention'.

For example:

0.  A new member signs up.

1.  Sys Admin creates an email alias:  FirstName.LastName at clue.denver.co.us.
   (No user would be allowed to change the emaili alias of FirstName.LastName)

2.  We set the alias to their desired forwarding email address - e.g. aliases 
file entry like:

FirstName.LastName:	joe_user at example.com

3.  We have some means for Joe User to change his forwarding address from 
joe_user at example.com to joe at another_example.com.  This would *automatically* 
update the aliases file.

I think this would be easier on the system admin.  In addition, I'm sure 
you've all used ISP accounts that allow authenticated users to change 
forwarding email addresses.

Another thing I thought of is : what are we going to do about removing 
forwarding addresses that are no longer valid?

Thanks for everyone's thoughts on the member features and implementations.  I 
think the result will be a better user experience.

Jeff

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