[support] Users without email addresses?

[Daniel Carrera]

Yeah, that sounds like it should work - <student-id>@foo.com

And I could even use that to help me match a Drupal account with a 
student in my custom application.

Thanks.


Christopher M. Jones wrote:
> As for the email address issue, I ran into a similar problem, where I 
> was batch creating users for whom I had no email address. What I did was 
> to generate a csv of all relevant user data, where the email address was 
> calculated. It was something like dummy01 at nowhere.com. Everybody had a 
> unique email, even though it wasn't a real one. And as far as I can 
> tell, this doesn't matter, except that the user cannot retrieve their 
> password, since this works by sending a link to the user's email 
> address. In your case you could make the address from their student ids, 
> again ensuring they are unique.
> 
> 
> 
> Marc Poris wrote:
>> Daniel,
>>
>> Take a look at http://drupal.org/project/user_import and 
>> http://drupal.org/project/userplus -- they will either provide something 
>> good enough for your purposes or they'll give you a nice head start on 
>> writing your own code.
>>
>> Marc
>>
>>
>> Daniel Carrera wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I have an unusual problem:
>>>
>>> We provide a service for schools. Students make Drupal accounts and use 
>>> it to do a school project. Problem is, many students don't have email 
>>> and indeed, the school doesn't *want* the students to have email. Worse, 
>>> they want the teacher to create the student accounts.
>>>
>>> I don't like this, yes it's stupid, but there is no chance of me 
>>> changing their mind about this. I'm hoping that someone here might help 
>>> me find a good solution for this problem.
>>>
>>> As part of the service, we have a custom web application that I wrote. 
>>> This application already has a record of all the students and teachers 
>>> and schools. So, for example, I could consider using this application to 
>>> insert new users into the Drupal database. The teacher clicks a button 
>>> that says "make Drupal accounts for all my students" and a PHP script 
>>> makes the accounts.
>>>
>>> Could that work?
>>>
>>> Personally, I am afraid of editing the Drupal database directly, but 
>>> perhaps there is a safe API I can use? Or is it reasonably safe to 
>>> insert records into the Drupal database by hand?
>>>
>>> I can see problems with this idea (e.g. what do I use as user names? 
>>> Student names are not unique). But I can't think of anything better. 
>>> Does anyone have a better idea?
>>>
>>>
>>> I don't really know any good way to solve this problem. The problem is 
>>> not urgent. For the time being we can get a staff member with admin 
>>> access to create student accounts using fake email addresses. But I hope 
>>> to find a better long-term solution.
>>>
>>> Thanks for the help.
>>>
>>> Daniel.
>>>   
>>