I am building an MVC 4 application starting with the default internet application. My goal is to send a confirmation email to users as they register to the website, i have managed to send the confirmation email but when i click on it the account is not being confirmed.
Note: I know the Register action is crowded, i will separate pieces to different files when i make it work.
*This is what i have done:*
Register Action
[HttpPost]
[AllowAnonymous]
[ValidateAntiForgeryToken]
public ActionResult Register(RegisterModel model)
{
if (ModelState.IsValid)
{
try //CreateUserAndAccount
{
var token = WebSecurity.CreateUserAndAccount(model.UserName, model.Password, null, true);
if (token != null)
{
var hosturl =
System.Web.HttpContext.Current.Request.Url.GetLeftPart(UriPartial.Authority) +
"/Account/ConfirmAccount?token=" + token;
var confirmationLink = string.Format("<a href=\"{0}\">Clink to confirm your registration</a>",
hosturl);
var message = new MailMessage("[email protected]", model.UserName)
{
Subject = "Please confirm your email",
Body = confirmationLink
};
var client = new SmtpClient();
client.EnableSsl = true;
client.Send(message);
}
TempData["message"] = string.Format(
"Thank you for registering. An email has been sent to {0}. " +
"Please check your email and use the enclosed link to finish registration.", model.UserName);
return RedirectToAction("Index", "Home");
}
catch (MembershipCreateUserException e)
{
ModelState.AddModelError("", ErrorCodeToString(e.StatusCode));
}
}
ConfirmAcount Action
public ActionResult ConfirmAccount(string ID)
{
//return View("ConfirmAccount");
var confirmationToken = Request["token"];
if (!String.IsNullOrEmpty(confirmationToken))
{
var user = WebSecurity.CurrentUserName;
WebSecurity.ConfirmAccount(confirmationToken);
WebSecurity.Login(user, null);
return View("Welcome");
}
TempData["message"] = string.Format(
"Your account was not confirmed, please try again or contact the website adminstrator.");
return RedirectToAction("Index", "Home");
}
Also Tried
public ActionResult ConfirmAccount(string ID)
{
if (string.IsNullOrEmpty(ID) || (!Regex.IsMatch(ID,
@"[0-9a-f]{8}\-([0-9a-f]{4}\-){3}[0-9a-f]{12}")))
{
TempData["tempMessage"] =
"The user account is not valid. Please try clicking the link in your email again.";
return View();
}
MembershipUser user = Membership.GetUser(new Guid(ID));
if (!user.IsApproved)
{
user.IsApproved = true;
Membership.UpdateUser(user);
FormsAuthentication.SetAuthCookie(user.UserName, false);
return RedirectToAction("Login");
}
WebSecurity.Logout();
TempData["tempMessage"] = "You have already confirmed your email address... please log in.";
return RedirectToAction("Login");
}
Could anyone please show me how to make this work, or perhaps suggest a different way to make this work??
I encourage you to use Postal, which is a simple to use email-creation package. It's available as a nuget-package.
Also take a look at Kevin Junghans blogpost on the subject! Email confirmation