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Drupal registration e-mail done right: no sending password back to user

Drupal (with LoginToboggan I assume) does welcome e-mails right. I can't stand sites that ask for your password, and then e-mail it back to you. Sure makes me feel my confidential information is in good hands.

This is an example of a registration e-mail done right:

Resolution

Hi Benjamin Melançon!

Thank you for registering with us at CJReport. We look forward to seeing you around the site.
You may now log in to http://www.cjreport.com/user using the following username and password:

username: Benjamin Melançon
password: [Your Secret Password]

Please click on the following link to validate your account and login:
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http://www.cjreport.com/user/validate/30/1189952879/9286b94d2449f72ba8bb657d641f08ba
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This is a one-time login, so it can be used only once.

If clicking the link doesn't work, just copy and paste the entire address into your browser.

-- The CJReport Team

(Ironicaly, after writing this praise, the validation link caused an error - "you can only use this once" type of message, on the first click - but I think I did get validated.)

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