I have a client that wants to use Discourse on a project but cannot have Discourse emails coming through their email system for legal reasons. The instance of Discourse is going to be very heavily moderated/administered by some people in charge of the project. It seems there are two possible solutio…

SSO ftw. Disable all emails, and set up a simple rails / Django app for user management, and reuse the SSO code for those frameworks. I really can’t say how awesome discourse SSO is.

You could build a plugin that patches that area and makes the email notifications a no-op Or you could totally disable emails and build a custom frontend for account management using the API There is no built in way

Yes, I totally endorse that, on second thought that is the best thing to do here instead of butchering Discourse internals with monkey patches.

[imagen] Falco: Disable all emails, and set up a simple rails / Django app for user management, and reuse the SSO code for those frameworks. Ok, awesome. Do you know if there’s any publicly available example of a SSO source for Discourse? A Rails or Django app that’s ready to go, so to speak?…

The topic you are looking for is :arrow_right: [imagen] Setup DiscourseConnect - Official Single-Sign-On for Discourse (sso) Integrations DiscourseConnect is a core Discourse feature that allows you to configure “Single Sign-On (SSO)” to completely outsource a…

Disabling all emails except those registration related?

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sam (Sam Saffron) 8 Julio, 2016 02:41 6

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Disabling all emails except those registration related?

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