I’m looking at the automatic group membership setting (in group settings). It states
Users who register with an email domain that exactly matches one in this list will be automatically added to this group:
Am I correct in assuming that entering bar.com will also trigger membership for emails ending in foo.bar.com? Or is the word “exactly” meant to state that exactly that is not the case?
Assuming that my assumption is correct, I’m looking for a solution for the following:
Goal: All employees (and only employees) of a university should automatically get membership in the group employees .
Strategy: Use the university’s domain uni.edu in the above setting to automatically assign membership
Problem: Student email-addresses also end in uni.edu but they should not get access to the group.
Possible solution: If I could exclude student.uni.edu from getting automatic membership, that should work, but I believe this is currently not possible. Or am I missing something? Any smart workarounds?
It matches the full domain after the @, so when you configure your group to automatically assign membership for uni.edu it will match foo@uni.edu, but not foo@student.uni.edu
Ah, okay, then my assumption was wrong. But then my issue is another one: I need some sort of catch-all for *.uni.edu because it is impossible to predict the exact sub-domain of an employees email-address. Some have uni.edu, but many have various subdomains like sociology.uni.edu, depending on their departmental affiliation or what they chose as their main affiliation or whatever other determinants there may be.
Is there any way to catch all of these without being able to provide a full list of all possible sub-domains?
What would it take to create a plugin/PR that would make *.uni.edu work, i.e. that it would catch all users with an email address ending in uni.edu, regardless of whether there is a subdomain or not? My hunch is that it should be pretty easy (read: I might be able to do it), but maybe I’m wrong?
Gerhard, do you know if a PR ever got created for this? I’d like an easy front-end administration way so that every new Discourse ID that gets created is assigned to a specific group.
For example, I’d like to just put a wildcard character of * in the “Users who register with an email domain that exactly matches one in this list will be automatically added to this group:” field and know that all new users join the group, regardless of their email address.
I think the intention is that there would be multiple groups, each one associated with a different domain. All users who match a specific domain would be allocated to that group.
A use case would be to automatically create groups associated with a specific organisation (and knowing that the group members are exclusively from that organisation). This would be useful in my community.
