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Is there any way to easily delete the unused accounts people make by mistake? Maybe some way to judge whether or not the generated password has been changed... There are a lot of accounts created and then the email doens't go through because the user did something wrong. Thanks in advance Kane Lauck karnac@mac.com

This might be useful. You can submit your idea as a feature request here so it doesn't get lost.

Currently, the software does not set a flag or time stamp in the database when a user changes his password the first time. To do the approach you want something like this would have to be added. You run the risk though of deleting the accounts of folks who decide to use the random password they receive instead of changing it. I've done that myself on some sites when I get an easy one to remember.

Another way to do this is to examine accounts where the email bounces indicating it may not be valid. I've been trying to do something like this, but I haven't been able to grab bounce messages. For some unknown reason no matter what I've tried so far, the return headers keep getting changed to my server instead of my account so they go into the blackhole instead.

Yet another way to do this would be to examine when was the last time a person logged in and delete the accounts of those who haven't done so in some specified period.