[OpenCA-Devel] Patch for manually sending verification mails

[Martin H. <he...@hl...>]

Dear OpenCA Developers,

I have added the possibility to send another verification mail from the
RA interface.

By default, a new CSR for which the email is not verified yet, is not
displayed at all (TEMPNEW in the database). Some time ago, I have sent a
patch which makes "unverified" requests visible in the CA interface.
That patch is included in the one attached to this mail.

Now, I can access such CSR's and I can edit them and eventually sign
them. But, if the user had a typo in the email-address, and I correct
it, I might want to have that one verified (it is PENDING now). So, I
have added a command that allows to send the verification mail again.

Other use cases are:

Sending mail is impossible due to server misconfiguration, and after
fixing that, the operator wants to send out the verification mails again
for the requests that have been entered into the database in the meantime,

or:

After upgrade from earlier versions of OpenCA, which did not yet support
email verification, all archived requests have un-verified
email-address. When renewing them, it should be possible to send out the
verification message from the (upgraded) Ca.

or:

When adding a new email-Address or changing the email-contact when a CSR
is renewed, one should be able to verify the new contact again.

Please have a look at my patch and consider adding this feature to
future releases of OpenCA.

best regards,
Martin