How to make allauth accept only gmail addresses belonging to a certain institute?

Question

Example:-

qwe123@ pilani.bits-pilani.ac.in

I think i just need to check if the "template ending" is present in the email address or not but the problem is where to check it in the allauth package

Answer 1

As far as I know, there isn't a direct way to do this in django-allauth. The best bet is to listen for the user_signed_up signal and disable an account that does not have the required email address format.

from allauth.account.signals import user_signed_up
from django.dispatch import receiver

@receiver(user_signed_up)
def after_user_signed_up(request, user):
    if user.email.endswith('pilani.bits-pilani.ac.in'):
         # do something for valid accounts
    else :
         user.is_active = False
         user.save()
         # raise SomeException

If you have more than one address pattern, you will need multiple if statements or possibly create a model for the allowed email address patterns.

Answer 2

There is no direct way to do it. But certainly there are few indirect ways. You can check using email header . From here you can get basic info about the email. You can store ip address and filter using that for a particular domain.