[BlueOnyx:24355] Re: Unsuspend doesn't acitivate receiving mail on 5210R

[Ernie]

Email is pretty much the only reason for an account if you are not the web
site admin since personal user pages were removed.


- Ernie.



> Hi Ernie,
> 
> > I found what I think is a small  bug in 5210R.
> > 
> > When you tick the "Suspend" check box in the Account tab, it also automaically 
> > ticks the "Disable User's Email" box in the Basic Settings tab. However, when
> > you untick the "Suspend" check box in the Account tab, it doesn't automatically 
> > untick "Disable User's Email" check box under the Basic Settings tab.
> 
> For now it works as intended, but I agree with you that it's not optimal.
> 
> When we suspend a Vsite, we sure *do* want the user accounts and email
> accounts suspended. No doubt about that.
> 
> But what do we do when the Vsite is unsuspended? We unsuspend the User
> accounts first. So far so good. But do we unsuspend their email services
> as well? THAT is the question. Because some Vsite(s) might intentionally
> have had the email accounts suspended for good reasons before. Maybe all
> of them, maybe just a few.
> 
> Blindly unsuspending them all might not be what we want in that case.
> Hence I left it as it always has been. At the end of the day the
> siteAdmin is capable of unsuspending the email services for his Vsite
> anway and he might know best what state which account really needs.
> 
> Long term I'll add a database field that records the
> pre-Vsite-suspension state of User accounts so that we can return them
> to that state once a Vsite gets unsuspended. That'll solve this issue.
> 
> -- 
> With best regards
> 
> Michael Stauber
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