Turning Send Welcome email option off ?

[hansi]

Hi Mbaa,

You are more than welcome. It seems that as per the advice of DrByte it is after all not a good idea (for security reasons) to send the customer the password in the welcome message. I am not sure if there is a way to overcome this problem or if we can send an encrypted email message?

Hansi

[Chuckl]

The usual technique is to send a link to a 'confirmation' page using a 1 time password. On the confirmation page the customer is invited to change their password to a permanent one?
Encrypted emails are certainly feasible, but I think you'll scare away more customers than you attract.

[hansi]

Hi Chuckl,

Thanks for the advice. How do I create this confirmation page link? When the use creates an account they decide their password but your idea is definitely a good one. Create a temporary password and then ask the users to change it to a permanent one. I know that MuySQL PHPadmin allows for the creation of a random password and we can perhaps emulate that technique to serve our purpose?

Regards,

Hansi

[Chuckl]

The newsletter subscribe mod has a feature like that, where the signup email contains a link to confirm. Worth having a look and adapting to you password requirements.