Hello,
I run a moodle website for a local school district, and we use LDAP and Active Directory to authenticate our users. We'd like to make entering an email address optional, because a lot of the younger students don't have their own email address, and also wouldn't be able to check it from school anyway. We just upgraded to 1.7 and I was hoping it would be an option in the new version. When we had 1.5.3, I changed some code to make it work, but It messed some other things up and I'd like to not have to do that again. Any options? Has this been a problem for anyone else?
Thanks!
Steven
We had the same problem, and solved it by puttling a fake email (like change@me.now) in the appropiate field in the active directory.
Hi Rob
We tried something similar but found that when Moodle tried to send the mail to the fake address (like when the user contributed to a forum) the moodle admin got a load of mails notifying of undeliverable mail. If we were to do this college wide (our students don't have a college provided email address) we would get unmanageable amounts of mail.
Any ways around this that you have found?
We use fake email addresses and then inactivated them on the user profiles. If you need to change lots of profiles just run an sql query finding the email addresses (we assigned the same fake domain name to all users) and changing the emailstop field to 1. If you need more details let me know. Works great for us.
I tested it in my local Moodle. Since today there is an additional parameter you can use for the bulk user upload. The parameter "emailstop" does everything you wanted to get.
username, password, firstname, lastname, country, email, emailstop
test1, test1, Test, Eins, GB, test1@mail.com, 0
test2, test2, Test, Zwei, AU, test2@nomail.xy, 1
test3, test3, Test, Drei, US, test3@nomail.xy, 1
test4, test4, Test, Vier, DE, test4@mail.com, 0
The parameter "emailstop" must be set to 1 if the mail address should NOT work. If you set it to 0 then the mail address is switched on. If you want to have all the mail addresses activ then you do not need the additional parameter in your upload file. In my example you see test1 and test4 active and this users will get mails. The mail addresses of test2 and test3 are NOT active and both do not get mails.
I wanted to get this parameter, too. At school we often have users who do not have a mail address when we start with a new Moodle class. Now it's possible to upload ALL users and switch off mailings for those with dummy addresses.
This works in Moodle 1.8.2+ and 1.9 dev after you updated your server with a new version.
Thanks! Ralf
username, password, firstname, lastname, country, email, emailstop
test1, test1, Test, Eins, GB, test1@mail.com, 0
test2, test2, Test, Zwei, AU, test2@nomail.xy, 1
test3, test3, Test, Drei, US, test3@nomail.xy, 1
test4, test4, Test, Vier, DE, test4@mail.com, 0
The parameter "emailstop" must be set to 1 if the mail address should NOT work. If you set it to 0 then the mail address is switched on. If you want to have all the mail addresses activ then you do not need the additional parameter in your upload file. In my example you see test1 and test4 active and this users will get mails. The mail addresses of test2 and test3 are NOT active and both do not get mails.
I wanted to get this parameter, too. At school we often have users who do not have a mail address when we start with a new Moodle class. Now it's possible to upload ALL users and switch off mailings for those with dummy addresses.
This works in Moodle 1.8.2+ and 1.9 dev after you updated your server with a new version.
Thanks! Ralf
Could someone please test this for me, as I'm having trouble getting it to work.
Here's what I'm using:
username,password,firstname,lastname,email,emailstop,lang,idnumber,autosubscribe,maildisplay
test1,secret,bob,mctest,mctest@example.com,1,en_us,34543,0,0
I upload this and get:
"emailstop" is not a valid field name.
Using 1.8.2+
Here's what I'm using:
username,password,firstname,lastname,email,emailstop,lang,idnumber,autosubscribe,maildisplay
test1,secret,bob,mctest,mctest@example.com,1,en_us,34543,0,0
I upload this and get:
"emailstop" is not a valid field name.
Using 1.8.2+
The error message is correct! emailstop is not a valid field name. The only fields that mention "mail" are
- mailformat
- maildisplay
John,
This doesnt make sense! See the conversation I was replying to.
Plus, MoodleDocs has the following:
Source: http://docs.moodle.org/en/Upload_users
Am I missing something?
This doesnt make sense! See the conversation I was replying to.
Plus, MoodleDocs has the following:
Turn email off: The parameter emailstop must be set to 1 if the email address should not work. If you set it to 0 then the email address is switched on. If you want to have all the email addresses active then you do not need the additional parameter in your upload file.
Source: http://docs.moodle.org/en/Upload_users
Am I missing something?
I'm not a CVS expert (not even a CVS novice), but checking sourceforge, it looks like emailstop was added to admin/uploaduser.php in revision 1.62, which is tagged as Moodle_19_beta. I don't have admin access to a 1.9 beta site so I can't test it.
Thanks John. This gives me a place to start. Much appreciated.
I added emailstop myself.
Reference: http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=33371
This did the trick.
Reference: http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=33371
This did the trick.
Don't know if this is the correct place to note this but I was just using the uploaduser feature on 1.8.4 and had a problem with uploaded users no appearing from within Moodle (when I searched users). Don't know why, but I ended up having to add "deleted" and then '0' in the deleted column of the csv file to get the created account to appear. I figure it out by going in and messing with the created record in the database and figuring out what made the user appear in Moodle.
Anyway, I added it the same way emailstop was added here.
Jason
Anyway, I added it the same way emailstop was added here.
Jason
How does one add emailstop?
Thanks,
Dave
We had a smiliar problem... when adding users manually after our initial upload. I blocked the following lines in edit.php in the "user" folder to cause Moodle 1.7 to ignore checking to see if email addresses were the same as an existing user. Please use at your own risk, as I'm not sure if there are possible negative side effects to doing this. Our specific problem was new students with the same email address (their parents):
lines 457 - 467
// } else if ($otheruser = get_record("user", "email", $usernew->email)) {
// if ($otheruser->id <> $user->id) {
// $err["email"] = get_string("emailexists");
// }
}
// if (empty($err["email"]) and !has_capability('moodle/user:update', get_context_instance(CONTEXT_SYSTEM, SITEID))) {
// if ($error = email_is_not_allowed($usernew->email)) {
// $err["email"] = $error;
// }
// }
Jerry,
If you have upgraded to 1.9, I'm curious whether the same code still applies. We have 1.9, and the same problem, as some of our overseas students all receive email through a single proctor's email address. Did this code fix work even after upgrading your version of Moodle?
Thanks for the help,
Bethany
NationsUniversity
If you have upgraded to 1.9, I'm curious whether the same code still applies. We have 1.9, and the same problem, as some of our overseas students all receive email through a single proctor's email address. Did this code fix work even after upgrading your version of Moodle?
Thanks for the help,
Bethany
NationsUniversity