[TYPO3-english] Fesuer_register - registration with confirmation e-mail works not for some users

[Mark Johnston]

Adrienne,

In my recent case, I saw no "< >" around the links I received (although that could also be affected by different mail systems and mail readers).  The problem in my case appeared to be the square brackets around the term tx_srfeuserregister_pi1[regHash] in the confirmation URL that was generated.  I've tried to point that out in the lines below which I have adapted from the email I received in response to my registration, but beware that line breaks might interfere with the attempt at clarification:

http://server.domain/wec/index.php?id=yy&tx_srfeuserregister_pi1[regHash]=xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
                                                               ^^^     ^^^
I have briefly looked at the templates for this process and I must say I am too new at this to have been able to find where the hyperlink is generated as you have.  In any case, the page that expects the tx_srfeuserregister_pi1[regHash] parameter would need to be altered to accept a different parameter name if necessary so that it will recognize the hash value being referenced.  It might be possible that changing the square brackets to URL escaped versions of them (%5B and %5D respectively) would suffice, but again it's up to the interpretation of the email system of the recipient.

     Best wishes,

     --Mark


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ecsedi Adrienn" <ecsedi.adrienn at eflow.hu> 
To: "Mark Johnston" <question.mark at comcast.net>, typo3-english at lists.netfielders.de 
Sent: Friday, April 24, 2009 5:02:58 AM GMT -08:00 US/Canada Pacific 
Subject: Re: [TYPO3-english] Fesuer_register - registration with confirmation e-mail works not for some users 

Okay, I solved the problem. :) 
I removed these "< >" around the links in the e-mail templates of 
feuser_register. It works now - hopefully in every mail system -, the mail 
systems I tested recognise the pure url and make it clickable. 


Adrienn 



On Fri, April 24, 2009 8:39 am, Mark Johnston wrote: 
> Adrienn, 
> 
> As it happens, I just now encountered the situation that causes the 
> problem you wrote about. I think the problem is in how different email 
> readers interpret and respond to plain text hyperlinks. In the case of the 
> Typo3 FE User registration email, the hyperlink contains square bracket 
> characters ("[" and "]") which may or may not be interpreted as outside 
> the hyperlink by different mail readers. The solution for those users of 
> mail readers that stop the URL prior to the square brackets is to 
> highlight the entire text of the URL and copy it manually to the address 
> bar of their web browser. 
> 
> Hope this helps, 
> 
> --Mark 
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Ecsedi Adrienn" <ecsedi.adrienn at eflow.hu> 
> To: typo3-english at lists.netfielders.de 
> Sent: Thursday, April 23, 2009 1:31:37 AM GMT -08:00 US/Canada Pacific 
> Subject: [TYPO3-english] Fesuer_register - registration with confirmation 
> e-mail works not for some users 
> 
> [...snip...] 
> The registration goes like this: they sign up on the site, and after that 
> they get the confirmation e-mail, with the correct link in it. They click 
> on the link, and the get to the registration page, where a new empty form 
> is waiting for them instead of the text that "they are confirmed on the 
> site". And on the be, they are not activated, they are still in the "not 
> confirmed" user group. 
> 
> Why is this happening to those people and why can other people register on 
> the site? The link url they get is good, it is not broken, the parameters 
> are also there. 
> 
> [...snip...] 
>