[TYPO3] FE registration - managing inactive accounts

[Denis Bilodeau]

Bernd and Katja,

I had a look at the extension and it seems to do everything I want and 
more. I will surely install it. Many thanks for your help!

Denis

bernd wilke wrote:
> on Mon, 18 Aug 2008 15:54:08 -0400, Denis Bilodeau wrote:
> 
>> Yet again, it would be preferable to be able to actually delete (not
>> simply disable) accounts, say, after 6 months of inactivity. The reason
>> is that someone with a disabled account will not be able to register
>> again by himself.
>>
>> The easy solution is to do a yearly purge of all accounts, asking
>> everyone active to re-register.
>>
>> Easier is to tolerate the accumulation of inactive accounts year after
>> year. How do users of this extension manage this, I wonder?
>>
> 
> I once used an BE-Extension which showed a statistic about users which 
> were not logged in for n days, they could be mailed to relogin, and they 
> could be deleted (really deleted and not just the deletion flag).
> it also cared about new users, which had not logged in at all.
> 
> I just looked for it in TER and could not find it. :-(
> as I have no access to that installation any more I can't look at the 
> installation.
> 
> 
> anyway it could be an easy way to rebuild this extension. 
> All neccessary data is abvailable by default: on every login a date in 
> the user-record is updated. So it is easy to select all the users which 
> hadn't login for more than n days.
> 
> with a cron-job it would be possible to test every day/week for users 
> with no login more than n (but less than n+x) days and send them a 
> reminder-mail.
> on the next run all users, which were not logged in for more than n+x 
> days are deleted - or saved to another table in case a holiday was more 
> than x days long and the record should be reactivated.
> 
> 
> bernd