[Koha-bugs] [Bug 29480] Add email address as a method for generating the userid when self registering in OPAC

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https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=29480

--- Comment #13 from Marcel de Rooy <m.de.rooy at rijksmuseum.nl> ---
Functional question about:

+If PatronSelfRegistrationUseridGenerationMethod is set to 'email', the email
+address will be used as the userid. If the patron being created has no email,
+or the patron has an email address that is already in use by another patron,
+the default way of creating the userid ($firstname.$surname) will be used.

Is that really what you want? If my email address is already in the database, I
probably dont want another account.
One of the issues we face is actually that impatient people register 2 or 3
accounts.

There is a security aspect too. You do not want to offer a way to check if an
email address is present. So it might be safer to send a verification mail to
the email address specified that either gives you a link to proceed or tells
you that there is an account already. The OPAC could just say: check your mail,
and not reveal the information.

What do you think?

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