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To: digital man
so where do we put in feature requests on the git and can you please
plut it on the wiki and the website? thanks


also i think the password emailer should not ask for the user's email address because that fucks me up because i use email aliases and i cant remember them.
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thanks!
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To: MRO
Re: feature request
By: MRO to digital man on Mon Nov 10 2025 02:57 am

so where do we put in feature requests on the git

https://gitlab.synchro.net/main/sbbs/-/issues

and can you please
plut it on the wiki and the website? thanks

It's the link in the second paragraph at https://wiki.synchro.net/howto:support

also i think the password emailer should not ask for the user's email address because that fucks me up because i use email aliases and i cant remember them.

Then how would you know where to check/read that email with the password? The idea of user authentication is to get as much info from the user as possible without (or before) giving the user any personally-identifying info (like an email address).
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To: Digital Man
Re: feature request
By: Digital Man to MRO on Mon Nov 10 2025 09:40 am

Then how would you know where to check/read that email with the
password? The idea of user authentication is to get as much info from

i would just check all my emails.
i create aliases so i have no idea what alias i used is a long time ago.
also a lot of times these systems don't send welcome emails or even
have email addresses that work.

password? The idea of user authentication is to get as much info from
the user as possible without (or before) giving the user any personally-identifying info (like an email address).

can't it just shoot off an email if the users requests a password?
that's what my pw emailer does. it's not hurting anything. it's not resetting a pw. it doesnt have to SHOW the email address to the requester. it can just send it and disconnect.
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To: MRO
Re: feature request
By: MRO to Digital Man on Tue Nov 11 2025 12:39 am

password? The idea of user authentication is to get as much info from
the user as possible without (or before) giving the user any personally-identifying info (like an email address).

can't it just shoot off an email if the users requests a password?
that's what my pw emailer does. it's not hurting anything. it's not resetting
a pw. it doesnt have to SHOW the email address to the requester. it can just send it and disconnect.

It could. It's a script, so I suppose the sysop easily has that option. I could make it a modopts setting, but it would default to off (requiring the user enter their email address, confirming their identity) - so probably not helping you with whatever password it is you're trying to recover.
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To: Digital Man
Re: feature request
By: Digital Man to MRO on Tue Nov 11 2025 01:52 pm

It could. It's a script, so I suppose the sysop easily has that
option. I could make it a modopts setting, but it would default
to off (requiring the user enter their email address, confirming
their identity) - so probably not helping you with whatever password
it is you're trying to recover.

i dunno. i think you should just make it so it shoots the person the
password when they say they forgot the pw. you dont have to show the email address and there's no harm done. even show in the email the ip
address and say that 'if this wasn't you, you should know'.
maybe have an option to email the sysop if there's another issue.

i just think it would be more effective overall.
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