Hello Drupal developers! This is my first post to this list and I apologize up front if i am suggesting something newbish or stupid or going about this the wrong way... but here goes! I would like to propose inclusion of a small patch to user.module, which extends /admin/user/search so that if you have "administer user" permissions, your search string will match against e-mail addresses as well as just usernames. I looked at the DEP documentation and I think tihs is probably simple enough to propose here in email, as there is a patch ready... --First, the rationale for this: One of my customer's most popular drupal sites has 5000+ users. While there IS a forgot password feature for helping users who lost their password or usernames find them, there is no way for an administrator to help when the user contacts them directly. While it would be nice to assume that all users can manage using the forgot password link, It has been our direct experience that many users can't or won't - they contact the site admins instead for help, and then there is no way to find their username from their email address. Without going into the database and running a SQL query there is no way for the administrator to glean the user's Drupal username. (is there a way I don't know of?) I did some digging on Drupal.org and found mention of an old user_search module from 4.6 (not ported beyond) and also some people working on profileplus for better profile searching support. But AFAIK this won't include email addresses, which are in the users table. When I went to huntfor a solution I discovered someone had made a patch to do this, but the patch wasn't up to date. I updated it to work against HEAD and also changed it to modify the help text so it works as follows: --New Behavour with the patch applied: For all non-admin users, everything is the same... the text box searches for a username and the help text reads: Enter a simple pattern ("*" may be used as a wildcard match) to search for a username. For example, one may search for "br" and Drupal might return "brian", "brad", and "brenda". But if you have 'administer users' permissions, the search will also search on the user.mail field, and the help text instead reads: Enter a simple pattern ("*" may be used as a wildcard match) to search for a username or e-mail address. For example, one may search for "br" and Drupal might return "brian", "brad", and "webmaster@brenda.com". That's it! The patch itself is as simple as it sounds... So my question for you folks is: what now? After my initial patch wasn't up to coding standards and I corrected it, the issue died on the vine. How do I move it forward from here? I guess first and foremost is to get more people to try testing it - where do I go to drum up more testers? Or what should be my next step? Here is the link to the latest version of the patch, user_search- by_email-HEAD_2.patch http://drupal.org/node/113983#comment-249183 I understand more steps may be required and it may take way loner than the code freeze has left... but I am just unsure how to get it moving forward again. Advice would be appreciated... Thanks! D.