CreateUserWizard - Preventing user creation if confirmation email cannot be sent

Question

I am trying to fix the behavior of a CreateUserWizard control in ASP.NET 2.0. With a fairly naive, out-of-the-box implementation, if you enter an email address that does not exist, or there is some other error sending the email, you get a YSOD showing the ugly details of the SMTP error, plus the user account is created anyway. Handling the SendMailError does not seem to help, as it is fired after the user is already created.

Ideally, an email error would cause an "invalid email address" error message (or something to that effect) to be displayed. Seems like this should be pretty easy, but after quite a bit of looking around I haven't found an answer. Anybody have any solutions?

Answer 1

Hey,

You cannot in that way; you would need to use what most businesses do: send a confirmation email that they must click on in X number of hours, and only then creating the account. THis is a modest change from the way the CUW works, so you'd have to break away somewhat from the base functionality and tap into events to prevent the default functionality for that.

HTH.