Hi,
Yesterday I pushed a password recovery feature to feedmug.com. Now users can reset & recover their password in one simple step. Thanks to Sachitanand for the patch that made it happen.
It’s an interesting story. At first, when I was the only user of feedmug, password recovery was not required. But when I released an early version for few friends and colleagues, I realised that it was necessary. But at the time I was so occupied with adding checks and validations, testing & re-testing site function, fixing bugs etc. and etc. that I thought I’ll do it later. Then one day Sachitanand asked if he could do something…anything. I said sure, write a Perl script to set password and send an email notification to the user. By the time he finished that script, I had done the domain registration and feedmug.com was ready to go live. The script was ready, but we did not have an interface to make use of it. Neither did I have the SMTP configuration for feedmug.com. So feedmug was launched without the ability to recover user’s password. I thought nobody is going to forget their password within days and we’d get some time to put things together. I was proved wrong the very next day, when Saleem – one of the early user – said he forgot his password and can not log-in to feedmug.com.
After the launch, though I had time on hand to fix it, Sachit had become father and gone home to see his family. While he came back, I put together an interface to accept user’s email address. But we still did not have SMTP configuration to send email notifications. Last week-end, finally, I had all the things in place and it was time to integrate Sachit’s patch and test it with the SMTP server. I manually integrated the patch on my local instance, did test-run it for couple days and then pushed it live on feedmug.com. In the end, it was quite easy to make things work together.
Hope you find it all useful.
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