Summary: | E-mail and SMS verification | ||
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Product: | Koha | Reporter: | Christopher Brannon <cbrannon> |
Component: | Patrons | Assignee: | Bugs List <koha-bugs> |
Status: | NEW --- | QA Contact: | Testopia <testopia> |
Severity: | enhancement | ||
Priority: | P5 - low | CC: | acampbell, andrew, aspencatteam, bugzilla, dcook, georgew, gmcharlt, kebliss, kyle.m.hall, madamyk, mary.woodward, rcoert |
Version: | 21.11 | ||
Hardware: | All | ||
OS: | All | ||
See Also: | https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=23908 | ||
GIT URL: | Change sponsored?: | --- | |
Patch complexity: | --- | Documentation contact: | |
Documentation submission: | Text to go in the release notes: | ||
Version(s) released in: | Circulation function: |
Description
Christopher Brannon
2022-09-15 19:07:59 UTC
Love this idea! Maybe it would even help keep our emails from going to the spam folder. (In reply to Mwoo from comment #1) > Love this idea! Maybe it would even help keep our emails from going to the > spam folder. If your Koha emails are going to the user's spam folder, then your Koha is probably sending emails via a mail server that isn't really 'authorized' to use that email address. I've noticed a lot of Koha staff admins configure Koha to use email addresses from their institutions, but this almost always requires additional work behind the scenes to get working correctly. (The exception being if the Koha staff admin have set up the SMTP server to be their institutional SMTP server.) So, I've done a little research. There are several email verification APIs out there. One I've been looking at is https://verifalia.com/email-verification-api. You can sign up for free and test up to 25 emails a day for free. That is great for testing the api, and then you can pay to use the validator for day-to-day operations. It would be great if we had a plugin that would allow you to use these api's. Unfortunately, I can't just throw this in the patron edit form via jquery because of the script involved, but one of our keen developers out there might be able to come up with something. This particular api, if incorporated into the patron edit form properly, would check the email addresses entered into any valid email field on the form. If the email address doesn't have any issues, it will allow you to save the form. This would be fantastic! I would love to be able to test this, but someone would have to come up with a way of adding to Koha for testing. |