Hi. My forum is on version 2.7.0.beta6. I maintain an employee forum where we want to disable access to specific users without emailing them. The way we have been disabling access is by suspending their account. When we suspend their account the user receives an email containing the reason for sus…

I’ve started a pull request to bring behavior in line with documentation: FIX: only send user suspension emails if email message provided master ← ryantm:suspend-email merged 03:03PM - 12 Apr 21 UT…

Here’s some code that will do it at the rails console: ./launcher enter app rails c username = "user-to-suspend-username" admin_username = "admin-username" reason = "suspend reason" till = Time.at(33174889200) u = User.find_by_username(username) puts "couldn't find user named #{username}" unless …

If the person is no longer an employee, how are they still able to access their corporate email account? :thinking: [image] ryantm: We’d really rather not bother the person with an email. You could always edit the user first, change their email to no@email.some.random.nonexistent.domain And…

[image] Richie: If the person is no longer an employee, how are they still able to access their corporate email account? It uses personal emails. [image] Richie: You could always edit the user first I know how to do that at the Rails console, but is there a way to do that in Web UI? I…

Wasn’t the emailing optional before?

All the documentation makes it look that way! But, it sends an email even if you leave the message part blank. https://docs.discourse.org/#tag/Users/paths/~1admin~1users~1{id}~1suspend.json/put Will send an email with this message when present [image] Optionally, provide more information abo…

You’re right, I just tested that. And deactivating the user’s email doesn’t prevent the email from going out either. I could have sworn that no email was sent unless the optional message was added in past versions.

This fix has been merged by @eviltrout :tada:

How to disable access without emailing user

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ryantm (Ryan Mulligan) April 9, 2021, 9:20pm 8

I’ve started a pull request to bring behavior in line with documentation:

Topic		Replies	Views
Deactivating users permanently Support	8	4789	June 8, 2024
Inhibiting email sent when suspending a user Support	3	546	March 23, 2020
Removing ALL email notifications for a user that has left Support	3	600	June 20, 2020
Flag user as do not email / suspend sending emails to a specific user Support	6	1128	August 28, 2018
Will suspending a user send them an email? Support	4	699	March 7, 2021

How to disable access without emailing user

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