[maphew]

Hi, bbPress appears to run well on the popular http://sourceforge.net/, with the notable and problematic exception of emailing users passwords, both on registration and for password resets.

A thread from last year posted a workaround for new users, bypass email and show users their generated password in the browser. http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/82?replies=14#post-349

However the patch no longer applies, or at least I couldn’t see how and where to apply it. There seems to have been quite a bit of code change in the last 7 months, and the fellow who posted that patch seems to have chosen a different route as the forums are no longer there on his site.

Even if this patch could be updated to apply to the current bbPress code base however it would not deal (I think) with the also much needed function of resetting passwords.

Sourceforge has posted a workaround for projects who need to use email registration, basically queue the messages up and fire them off in a cron job. http://sourceforge.net/docman/display_doc.php?docid=4297&group_id=1#email

I personally would be happy to see that implemented in bbPress, as a plugin since it’s SF specific, however I’ve seen a number of other threads which indicate a more generic solution would be useful:

[ruerup]

Off course! It works. Thanks!

[maphew]

Ruerup: can you please clarify? what works? how did you get there?

I still have my forum unavailable because I can’t solve this problem.

[maphew]

I finally found an example of someone sending email the sourceforge way, via a database and cron, and it is in php. Of course it is heavily specific to it’s parent project’s setup. Would someone please take a look at this and give an indication how it might be adapted to bbPress?

Thank you.

Drupal on Sourceforge: http://starkos.industriousone.com/drupal_on_sourceforge

[fel64]

Not really familiar with drupal or Cron. What you’ll need to do is start your function using a hook when someone registers, probably register_user, add your information for the email to a new table, schedule the cron job (no idea about that at all), and send the email however it’s done. bbPulp will be helpful when writing the plugin. Sorry I can’t help you more than that.

[Pravin Paratey]

http://pravin.insanitybegins.com/articles/running-bbpress-on-sourceforge/

This article tells you how you can setup bbpress 0.8.1 on sourceforge

[maphew]

pravin: many many thanks for your efforts. It is much appreciated.

Unfortunately it appears this might all be for naught. I just learned Sourceforge has disabled cron indefinately: “As of 2007-06-12 the cron service provided under the project shell service has been disabled. Ongoing systems problems have forced us to pull it offline until a suitable replacement can be developed. Accordingly, no estimate for when we’ll restore service is being provided.” – https://sourceforge.net/docs/A04

https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=200001&aid=1736741&group_id=1

sigh.

Still, at least I can periodically ssh in and run the trigger script from the command line once or twice a day, so it’s not completely irrelevant.