[support] Users without email addresses?

[Daniel Carrera]

That's an interesting idea. Thanks.


Steve Kessler wrote:
> A non-Drupal but educational response might be to use the free - student
> emails from Gaggle.net
> (http://www.gaggle.net/gen?_template=/templates/gaggle/html/index.jsp) - I
> used these for students when I worked for Los Angeles Unified School
> District. The free version has ads but teachers can monitor traffic and
> there is extensive filtering. 
> 
> 
> Steve Kessler 
> Denver DataMan 
> 303-587-4428 
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: J-P Stacey [mailto:jp.stacey at torchbox.com] 
> Sent: Wednesday, December 10, 2008 9:22 AM
> To: support at drupal.org
> Subject: Re: [support] Users without email addresses?
> 
> 
>> Yeah, that sounds like it should work - <student-id>@foo.com
> 
> If I were a hacker, I'd sit at foo.com or nowhere.com, and wait for the 
> emails to come rolling in.
> 
> For fake emails, always use @example.com:
> 
> 	http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2606.txt
> 
> To keep student emails properly fake, you could also create a stub 
> module with hook_form_alter to add a validate method to the user-edit 
> forms. That could check that the user was either (a) a teacher or (b) 
> their email was of the format firstname.lastname at example.com .
> 
> J-P