Account verification required
Posted by Magnus on 27 January 2002, 13:46 GMT
We have just launched a new system on ticalc.org used to verify the email addresses that are connected to the user accounts on our site. This is done because we have found there to be a lot of accounts that have old non-functioning email addresses registered, which causes us a lot of problems when communicating with the users.
When an account "expires", the user will be asked at login time to verify the email address. This is done by having the page send an email to the registered address, and then using a web based form to input a code that is sent in that email. Assuming that the recipients mail server is online, the whole process should take no more than a minute or two.
All current accounts have been given a random time for "last verified". This means that all current accounts will get the verification prompt sometime between today and approximatly two months from now.
