I’ve noticed a difference in behaviour between the email domains whitelist setting at registration - and the automatic registration email domains setting in manage groups. I work in the NHS where users have email addresses with sub domains emails @organisation.nhs.uk The whitelist lets them all register by adding top domain nhs.uk to the list. That works well for me. If I add the same top domain nhs.uk to automatically add them to a group - it doesn’t add them - at least not retrospectively. I would like the automatic group registration to behave as the whitelist does. I’ve tried a wildcard character asterisk but that doesn’t work. Do you have any suggestions - other than going through and adding every sub domain?

Yeah there is an inconsistency internally, our automatic group membership is based off a strict domain match per: app/jobs/regular/automatic_group_membership.rb 40546af21 .where("user_emails.email ~* '@(#{domains})$'") Our matcher for the email_domains_whitelist uses this match lib/validators/email_validator.rb 40546af21 regexp = Regexp.new("@(.+\\.)?(#{domains})$", true) I think it makes sense to make this coherent and consistent. @techAPJ can you adjust the group regex.. carefully and make sure it is tested so it also allows subdomains.

[image] Rhidian: it doesn’t add them - at least not retrospectively. Why would retrospective addition be expected here? Couldn’t that be surprising and possibly even dangerous in other contexts? (Thinking about this more, perhaps a dynamic pop-up prompt “do you want to make this retrospective, it will affect {x} users?” would work better?)

Automatic registration domain wild card

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Rhidian (Rhidian Bramley) April 6, 2020, 5:24am 5

Discourse 2.4 does give this prompt to include member already registered with the domain. It’s a great feature and works well, aside from this inconsistency.

Thank you

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