closes #4885

public/language/en_GB/error.json

@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@
 	"email-taken": "Email taken",
 	"email-not-confirmed": "Your email has not been confirmed yet, please click here to confirm your email.",
 	"email-not-confirmed-chat": "You are unable to chat until your email is confirmed, please click here to confirm your email.",
+	"email-not-confirmed-email-sent": "Your email has not been confirmed yet, please check your inbox for the confirmation email.",
 	"no-email-to-confirm": "This forum requires email confirmation, please click here to enter an email",
 	"email-confirm-failed": "We could not confirm your email, please try again later.",
 	"confirm-email-already-sent": "Confirmation email already sent, please wait %1 minute(s) to send another one.",

public/src/app.js

@@ -473,24 +473,22 @@ app.cacheBuster = null;
 		if (!config.requireEmailConfirmation || !app.user.uid) {
 			return;
 		}
-		if (!app.user.email) {
-			app.alert({
+		var msg = {
 			alert_id: 'email_confirm',
-				message: '[[error:no-email-to-confirm]]',
 			type: 'warning',
-				timeout: 0,
-				clickfn: function() {
+			timeout: 0
+		};
+
+		if (!app.user.email) {
+			msg.message = '[[error:no-email-to-confirm]]';
+			msg.clickfn = function() {
 				app.removeAlert('email_confirm');
 				ajaxify.go('user/' + app.user.userslug + '/edit');
-				}
-			});
-		} else if (!app.user['email:confirmed']) {
-			app.alert({
-				alert_id: 'email_confirm',
-				message: err ? err.message : '[[error:email-not-confirmed]]',
-				type: 'warning',
-				timeout: 0,
-				clickfn: function() {
+			};
+			app.alert(msg);
+		} else if (!app.user['email:confirmed'] && !app.user.isEmailConfirmSent) {
+			msg.message = err ? err.message : '[[error:email-not-confirmed]]';
+			msg.clickfn = function() {
 				app.removeAlert('email_confirm');
 				socket.emit('user.emailConfirm', {}, function(err) {
 					if (err) {
@@ -498,8 +496,12 @@ app.cacheBuster = null;
 					}
 					app.alertSuccess('[[notifications:email-confirm-sent]]');
 				});
-				}
-			});
+			};
+
+			app.alert(msg);
+		} else if (!app.user['email:confirmed'] && app.user.isEmailConfirmSent) {
+			msg.message = '[[error:email-not-confirmed-email-sent]]';
+			app.alert(msg);
 		}
 	};
 

src/middleware/header.js

@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
 var async = require('async');
 var nconf = require('nconf');
 
+var db = require('../database');
 var user = require('../user');
 var meta = require('../meta');
 var plugins = require('../plugins');
@@ -94,6 +95,12 @@ module.exports = function(app, middleware) {
 					next(null, userData);
 				}
 			},
+			isEmailConfirmSent: function(next) {
+				if (!meta.config.requireEmailConfirmation || !req.uid) {
+					return next(null, false);
+				}
+				db.get('uid:' + req.uid + ':confirm:email:sent', next);
+			},
 			navigation: async.apply(navigation.get),
 			tags: async.apply(meta.tags.parse, res.locals.metaTags, res.locals.linkTags)
 		}, function(err, results) {
@@ -110,6 +117,7 @@ module.exports = function(app, middleware) {
 			results.user.isGlobalMod = results.isGlobalMod;
 			results.user.uid = parseInt(results.user.uid, 10);
 			results.user['email:confirmed'] = parseInt(results.user['email:confirmed'], 10) === 1;
+			results.user.isEmailConfirmSent = !!results.isEmailConfirmSent;
 
 			if (parseInt(meta.config.disableCustomUserSkins, 10) !== 1 && res.locals.config.bootswatchSkin !== 'default') {
 				templateValues.bootswatchCSS = '//maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootswatch/latest/' + res.locals.config.bootswatchSkin + '/bootstrap.min.css';

src/user/email.js

@@ -28,8 +28,8 @@ var emailer = require('../emailer');
 
 	UserEmail.sendValidationEmail = function(uid, email, callback) {
 		callback = callback || function() {};
-		var confirm_code = utils.generateUUID(),
-			confirm_link = nconf.get('url') + '/confirm/' + confirm_code;
+		var confirm_code = utils.generateUUID();
+		var confirm_link = nconf.get('url') + '/confirm/' + confirm_code;
 
 		var emailInterval = meta.config.hasOwnProperty('emailConfirmInterval') ? parseInt(meta.config.emailConfirmInterval, 10) : 10;
 
@@ -97,6 +97,7 @@ var emailer = require('../emailer');
 				async.series([
 					async.apply(user.setUserField, confirmObj.uid, 'email:confirmed', 1),
 					async.apply(db.delete, 'confirm:' + code),
+					async.apply(db.delete, 'uid:' + confirmObj.uid + ':confirm:email:sent'),
 					function(next) {
 						db.sortedSetRemove('users:notvalidated', confirmObj.uid, next);
 					}