Automatically delete users account requests in stage "pending email approval". after X days #555

[BobLamarley]

Origin:

#555

What I’ve done:

• The script searches for all users who have been in the “pending approval” status for more than the specified number of days (provided via the command argument).
• It sends an email to each affected user and a single summary email to the admin, listing all the users who were deleted.

Key Details:

• This is a Node.js script rather than a Bash script, as it leverages maisrv functions to send emails.

• To run the script, you’ll need to set the NODE_CONFIG_DIR environment variable to point to the configuration directory:

  export NODE_CONFIG_DIR=path/to/config

• Usage: To run the script manually, use the following command:

  node delete_pending_email_approvals.js --days 30

• Scheduling: You can also schedule this script using cron. For example, to run it every minute:

  * * * * * /path/to/node /path/to/delete_pending_email_approvals.js --days 30

[mboudet]

I'd rather avoid adding deps if we can avoid it. Can you use commander as a CLI tool? We already use it in the various scripts in the bin folder.

Ok, we already use 'commandLineArgs' actually (well, Roscoff / IFB do at least), it just wasn't in the package.json file. I guess it's fine.

[mboudet]

I wouldn't send a mail to an user who did not validate their email address. If it's invalid, you want to avoid sending an email to it to avoid reducing your own email reputation with rejections.

In any case, it's less an 'inactivity' issue, and more 'you did not validate your mail'.