How to pass users pw through email?

[kh99]

Originally Posted by John Lester

I want to thank you for all of your help today sure made it go a lot faster

You're welcome. Are you talking about over on vbulletin.com? I didn't really think anyone knew who I was over there because I have a different username.

However I don't have a clue about how to make this plugin. I thought that you had to login in order to change settings, are you saying that the plugin will change the settings for the user based on their email address without them having to log in?

The plugin can do whatever it wants - it can check for a user being logged in, but it doesn't have to. But one thing I didn't really think of is that this method would mean customizing the email for each user by inserting the email address in the link. The existing mod currently doesn't do that because it knows the userid by being logged in.

I had an idea, include the form in the outgoing emails ... but would it work? I can't really test this as the host has outgoing emails turned off, and I don't have any email clients configured on my localhost

You could write a plugin that checks the username and password if it was passed in a form, but it would have to be html email and so it would depend on the user viewing the mail in html.