Creating a user with an empty password will send an email to let him set his password (#2479)

* Creating a user with an empty password will send an email to let him set his password

* Consideration of Chocobozzz's comments

* Tips for optional password

* API documentation

* Fix circular imports

* Tests

1 files changed, 16 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/server/lib/emailer.ts b/server/lib/emailer.ts
index 9ce6186b1..0f74d2a8c 100644
--- a/server/lib/emailer.ts
+++ b/server/lib/emailer.ts
@@ -384,6 +384,22 @@ class Emailer {
     return JobQueue.Instance.createJob({ type: 'email', payload: emailPayload })
   }
 
+  addPasswordCreateEmailJob (username: string, to: string, resetPasswordUrl: string) {
+    const text = 'Hi,\n\n' +
+      `Welcome to your ${WEBSERVER.HOST} PeerTube instance. Your username is: ${username}.\n\n` +
+      `Please set your password by following this link: ${resetPasswordUrl} (this link will expire within seven days).\n\n` +
+      'Cheers,\n' +
+      `${CONFIG.EMAIL.BODY.SIGNATURE}`
+
+    const emailPayload: EmailPayload = {
+      to: [ to ],
+      subject: CONFIG.EMAIL.SUBJECT.PREFIX + 'New PeerTube account password',
+      text
+    }
+
+    return JobQueue.Instance.createJob({ type: 'email', payload: emailPayload })
+  }
+
   addVerifyEmailJob (to: string, verifyEmailUrl: string) {
     const text = 'Welcome to PeerTube,\n\n' +
       `To start using PeerTube on ${WEBSERVER.HOST} you must  verify your email! ` +