In some cases (configurations, situations) sending a registration email will fail.
If email verification is required, this is a major problem, because the user cannot login.

Additionally, the user is being highly irritated by the combination of both a warning and an okay message.
He will check his email account and find nothing, and in the meanwhile he might have clicked away, and doesn't remember the exact wording. So he will probably retry registering, only to find out that his username has now been taken. That's pretty frustrating - will he ever come back?

One approach would be to check at least on install whether the mailserver works. That would be very useful as well. Still, sendmail can stop working for some reason.
So what we can do now is:

  1. Don't tell the user a mail was sent if it was not.
    should be obvious.
  2. Give the user appropriate information on what to do or be quiet and inform the admin.
    is a bit problematic, because we don't know if and how the admins wants to be reached, so we can't just hand out an email address or such. So for now the best we can do is to stay quiet and inform the admin via watchdog. It would be awesome though if we had a drupal_set_message queue for admins.

Enclosed is a patch that accomplishes this. It's surely not ready or RTBC, rather it is meant to be a starter for the discussion.

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#2 userRegistrationFail.png21.14 KBTor Arne Thune
user_mail_notify_failed.patch7.13 KBpancho

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Status: Needs review » Needs work

The last submitted patch failed testing.

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Tor Arne Thune commented
Version: 7.x-dev » 8.x-dev
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new userRegistrationFail.png21.14 KB

Still an issue in 7.x. Should be changed in 8.x at least. See attached screenshot for the messages.

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jhedstrom
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Version: 8.0.x-dev » 8.1.x-dev
Category: Bug report » Feature request
Status: Needs work » Postponed (maintainer needs more info)
Issue tags: +Needs issue summary update

This is a feature request. Marking as postponed due to inactivity and tagging for an IS update.

Version: 8.1.x-dev » 8.2.x-dev

Drupal 8.1.0-beta1 was released on March 2, 2016, which means new developments and disruptive changes should now be targeted against the 8.2.x-dev branch. For more information see the Drupal 8 minor version schedule and the Allowed changes during the Drupal 8 release cycle.

Version: 8.2.x-dev » 8.3.x-dev

Drupal 8.2.0-beta1 was released on August 3, 2016, which means new developments and disruptive changes should now be targeted against the 8.3.x-dev branch. For more information see the Drupal 8 minor version schedule and the Allowed changes during the Drupal 8 release cycle.

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dddave commented
Issue summary: View changes

Version: 8.3.x-dev » 8.4.x-dev

Drupal 8.3.0-alpha1 will be released the week of January 30, 2017, which means new developments and disruptive changes should now be targeted against the 8.4.x-dev branch. For more information see the Drupal 8 minor version schedule and the Allowed changes during the Drupal 8 release cycle.

Version: 8.4.x-dev » 8.5.x-dev

Drupal 8.4.0-alpha1 will be released the week of July 31, 2017, which means new developments and disruptive changes should now be targeted against the 8.5.x-dev branch. For more information see the Drupal 8 minor version schedule and the Allowed changes during the Drupal 8 release cycle.

Version: 8.5.x-dev » 8.6.x-dev

Drupal 8.5.0-alpha1 will be released the week of January 17, 2018, which means new developments and disruptive changes should now be targeted against the 8.6.x-dev branch. For more information see the Drupal 8 minor version schedule and the Allowed changes during the Drupal 8 release cycle.

Version: 8.6.x-dev » 8.7.x-dev

Drupal 8.6.0-alpha1 will be released the week of July 16, 2018, which means new developments and disruptive changes should now be targeted against the 8.7.x-dev branch. For more information see the Drupal 8 minor version schedule and the Allowed changes during the Drupal 8 release cycle.

Version: 8.7.x-dev » 8.8.x-dev

Drupal 8.7.0-alpha1 will be released the week of March 11, 2019, which means new developments and disruptive changes should now be targeted against the 8.8.x-dev branch. For more information see the Drupal 8 minor version schedule and the Allowed changes during the Drupal 8 release cycle.

Version: 8.8.x-dev » 8.9.x-dev

Drupal 8.8.0-alpha1 will be released the week of October 14th, 2019, which means new developments and disruptive changes should now be targeted against the 8.9.x-dev branch. (Any changes to 8.9.x will also be committed to 9.0.x in preparation for Drupal 9’s release, but some changes like significant feature additions will be deferred to 9.1.x.). For more information see the Drupal 8 and 9 minor version schedule and the Allowed changes during the Drupal 8 and 9 release cycles.

Version: 8.9.x-dev » 9.1.x-dev

Drupal 8.9.0-beta1 was released on March 20, 2020. 8.9.x is the final, long-term support (LTS) minor release of Drupal 8, which means new developments and disruptive changes should now be targeted against the 9.1.x-dev branch. For more information see the Drupal 8 and 9 minor version schedule and the Allowed changes during the Drupal 8 and 9 release cycles.

Version: 9.1.x-dev » 9.2.x-dev

Drupal 9.1.0-alpha1 will be released the week of October 19, 2020, which means new developments and disruptive changes should now be targeted for the 9.2.x-dev branch. For more information see the Drupal 9 minor version schedule and the Allowed changes during the Drupal 9 release cycle.

Version: 9.2.x-dev » 9.3.x-dev

Drupal 9.2.0-alpha1 will be released the week of May 3, 2021, which means new developments and disruptive changes should now be targeted for the 9.3.x-dev branch. For more information see the Drupal core minor version schedule and the Allowed changes during the Drupal core release cycle.

Version: 9.3.x-dev » 9.4.x-dev

Drupal 9.3.0-rc1 was released on November 26, 2021, which means new developments and disruptive changes should now be targeted for the 9.4.x-dev branch. For more information see the Drupal core minor version schedule and the Allowed changes during the Drupal core release cycle.

Version: 9.4.x-dev » 9.5.x-dev

Drupal 9.4.0-alpha1 was released on May 6, 2022, which means new developments and disruptive changes should now be targeted for the 9.5.x-dev branch. For more information see the Drupal core minor version schedule and the Allowed changes during the Drupal core release cycle.

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smustgrave commented
Status: Postponed (maintainer needs more info) » Closed (outdated)

Closing as outdated since this was moved to PNMI 7 years ago

If still a valid request please reopen with a new issue summary

Thanks!