[isf-wifidog] Wifidog validation email bug fix

[Mina Naguib]

Should we perhaps send a reminder email to all accounts in the  
validation state reminding them that their accounts are not active  
yet and they should follow link XYZ if they wish to activate it to  
use IleSansFil's service ?

On 16-Sep-05, at 3:35 PM, Proulx François wrote:

> I just fixed a major bug that has been around for many months. Our  
> validation email (inside Ile Sans Fil) were not fully RFC822  
> compliant, because we have non ASCII compatible characters in our  
> UTF-8 subject lines... Some email servers would even totally ignore  
> the email and discard them !!! I also realized that php  
> mb_encode_mimeheader function do not return fully compliant data so  
> I had to write a little bit of code... I created a new Mail class  
> to keep it nice and tight. The class is stateless and 100%  
> indenpendent, so it is reusable in any project.
>
> This was a major issue for Ile Sans Fil since we might have lost a  
> few users who never receive the confirmation email ! It's been  
> tested on some of the most reluctant servers... We are now running  
> it in production.
>
> Have fun