[keycloak-user] No email send out while creation of ne user

[Stian Thorgersen]

On 16 November 2015 at 11:32, Sebastian Olscher <
sebastian.olscher at traveltainment.de> wrote:

> Hello,
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> if this is an expected behavior, I´m asking myself how do I get knowledge
> about some essential points:
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> *“Try to login with the newly created user”*
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> How does the user know at which time the account is created and ready for
> login?
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> How does the user know the username for the login?
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> How does the user know the password for the first login?
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> How does the user know where to login if their might be more than one
> instances of “keycloak”?
>

As I said we don't have support for a "welcome mail" built in ATM. For
users manually created through admin console/endpoints you would have to
send out your own welcome mail ATM.


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> Thanks,
> Sebastian
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> *From:* Stian Thorgersen [mailto:sthorger at redhat.com]
> *Sent:* Monday, November 16, 2015 9:57 AM
> *To:* Sebastian Olscher
> *C**c:* keycloak-user at lists.jboss.org
> *Subject:* Re: [keycloak-user] No email send out while creation of ne user
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> On 16 November 2015 at 09:50, Sebastian Olscher <
> sebastian.olscher at traveltainment.de> wrote:
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> Hello,
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> when I create a new user in the admin console of keycloak no email is send
> out. Neither when I add “required user actions” such as “verify email” in
> the user creation dialog. The only possibility to send emails is, to change
> to the credentials dialog within the user profile and click the “send
> email” button.
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> Try to login with the newly created user. After the user has entered
> username+password the verify email is sent and the user can't complete the
> login until the email address is verified.
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> Is this a wanted behaviour that no email is sended when the user is
> created or is this a bug? From my understanding it would be helpful to send
> the email directly while creating a user.
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> No, it's the expected behavior. Verify email and other actions have
> limited life span so it makes little sense to send these out when the user
> is created. It's much better to send these when the user is actually trying
> to use the account.
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> BTW verify email is not a welcome or account created email, it's
> explicitly about the user verifying the email alone. For a welcome email it
> would make sense to send it when the user is created. We have an
> outstanding jira to add that.
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> Rerq
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> Thanks,
> Sebastian
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