Email user accounts when admin creates them

Patch looks good, and this is a needed feature. Have not installed and tested it yet, but hope to get to that tomorrow.

Patched this against head, and works great. created 3 users, and all 3 got their emails. def. need this patch.

This feature is needed, it always annoys me when I have to compose a separate mail to the users after creating their account. I am wondering if we whould have an extra mail text for this case.

I agree with killes. This feature is really needed, but we need a different body text for the email. Now it starts with 'thank you for registering at %site', but the user didn't register himself, and may even not have been aware that an admin was going to register him. I think it should say something like 'An administrator of %site created a new account for you blahblah...'.

Tested this user.module_21.patch and it worked properly as described. user received email, was able to login through the url that came through the email, all is groovy.

Any chance this great feature will also be tagged for the 4.6 branch of user.module?

short answer: no

because we dont add new features to 4.6 only to 4.7 - the current development version

I've made a very dirty hack for 4.6.5

This adds no notify-option to user admin menu, I just put the part for new user registration into the section where admin creates new account:

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      user_save('', array('name' => $edit['name'], 'pass' => $edit['pass'], 'init' => $edit['mail'], 'mail' => $edit['mail'], 'roles' => $edit['roles'], 'status' => 1));

I've just added

    $variables = array('%username' => $edit['name'], '%site' => variable_get('site_name', 'drupal'), '%password' => $edit['pass'], '%uri' => $base_url, '%uri_brief' => substr($base_url, strlen('http://')), '%mailto' => $account->mail, '%date' => format_date(time()), '%login_uri' => url('user', NULL, NULL, TRUE), '%edit_uri' => url('user/'. $account->uid .'/edit', NULL, NULL, TRUE));
    $subject = _user_mail_text('welcome_subject', $variables);
    $body = _user_mail_text('welcome_body', $variables);
    user_mail($edit['mail'], $subject, $body, "From: $from\nReply-to: $from\nX-Mailer: Drupal\nReturn-path: $from\nErrors-to: $from");
    return t('Your password and further instructions have been sent to your e-mail address.');

So every time an admin creates a new account, the welcome message for new users will be sent to the new user. Works for me, but isn't elegant.

Hey m3avrck,

Thanks for maintaining this patch. It is definitely a major add for many administrators.

This patch works well for me. The only changes I could see making would be text changes on the admin/settings/user page.

"Subject of welcome e-mail (created by administrator)" ==> How about "user created by administrator"?

The subject of the message by default is "Account details for %username at %site (admin created)". How about something like "An administrator created an account for you at %site"?

doesn't apply anymore.

applied