New Message: Re: Lost Passwords in Manila Weblogs

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Address: http://manila.userland.com/discuss/msgReader$481

By: Patrick Ritchie (flashblade at videotron.ca)

Lots of Manila still does expect a valid email address to identify the member.

Go take a look at manilaSuite.emailNotification.getMemberName, it uses the memberkey interchangeably with the email address.

manila.member.login (which is responsible for emailing the user his/her password) works the same way. Using a non-email address as the memberkey will break this functionality in Manila.

The whole system of using the email address as the memberkey should be dropped, then once we have a true email address field, we can validate THAT in the way Rogers describes.

Anything else is just a workaround of the current problem.