AA Skip Email (aa_skip_email)

A small Alliance Auth plugin that lets you skip collecting real email addresses during EVE SSO registration by automatically generating a placeholder User.email. This is useful for integrations (e.g., OIDC clients) that expect email to be present.

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Features

• Creates a placeholder email for newly created users during SSO registration.
• Includes a one-off Django management command to backfill missing emails.
• Includes a Celery task suitable for periodic execution to keep data consistent.

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Requirements

• Alliance Auth

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Installation

Install the plugin into the same Python environment as Alliance Auth (pip/uv/poetry-whatever you use).

pip install aa-skip-email

Add the app to INSTALLED_APPS (typically in local.py):

INSTALLED_APPS += [
    ...
    "aa_skip_email",
    ...
]

Add the authentication backend to AUTHENTICATION_BACKENDS.

[!IMPORTANT] This plugin replaces Alliance Auth’s default allianceauth.authentication.backends.StateBackend behavior. Update AUTHENTICATION_BACKENDS so that SkipEmailBackend is used instead of the original AA StateBackend.

Example:

AUTHENTICATION_BACKENDS = [
    # Replace the original AA StateBackend with this plugin backend
    "aa_skip_email.authentication.backends.SkipEmailBackend",
    # Keep the rest of your original backends
    "django.contrib.auth.backends.ModelBackend",
]

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Configuration

Configure these in local.py (or your equivalent settings file).

AA_SKIP_EMAIL_DOMAIN

Domain used for placeholder addresses.

• Type: str
• Default: no-email.invalid

AA_SKIP_EMAIL_DOMAIN = "no-email.invalid"

Using a domain under .invalid helps avoid accidentally generating addresses at a real domain.

AA_SKIP_EMAIL_LIMIT

Default limit for how many users are processed per run by the management command and the Celery task.

• Type: int
• Default: 5000

AA_SKIP_EMAIL_LIMIT = 5000

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How placeholder emails are generated

A placeholder email is generated from the user’s username (sanitized to a conservative character set) and a unique suffix (typically the user id; otherwise a UUID). The local-part is kept within 64 characters.

Resulting format is similar to:

<sanitized-username>-<id-or-uuid>@<AA_SKIP_EMAIL_DOMAIN>

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One-off backfill (management command)

The plugin provides a Django management command to fill missing emails.

Fill missing emails (default)

python manage.py fill_missing_emails

Limit number of users

python manage.py fill_missing_emails --limit 5000

Dry-run (no writes)

python manage.py fill_missing_emails --dry-run --limit 50

Overwrite emails for all users

[!CAUTION] This will replace existing emails.

python manage.py fill_missing_emails --overwrite

Overwrite only existing placeholders

Safer if some users have real emails and you only want to regenerate placeholders.

python manage.py fill_missing_emails --overwrite --only-placeholders

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Scheduler (Celery Beat)

The plugin includes a Celery task named:

• aa_skip_email.fill_missing_emails

To run it periodically, add a schedule entry in local.py using CELERYBEAT_SCHEDULE.

Example: run every 6 hours

from celery.schedules import crontab

CELERYBEAT_SCHEDULE["aa_skip_email_fill_missing_emails"] = {
    "task": "aa_skip_email.fill_missing_emails",
    "schedule": crontab(minute=0, hour="*/6"),
    # Optional: helps spread load across instances in some AA deployments
    "apply_offset": True,
}

Example: run daily at 04:15

from celery.schedules import crontab

CELERYBEAT_SCHEDULE["aa_skip_email_fill_missing_emails"] = {
    "task": "aa_skip_email.fill_missing_emails",
    "schedule": crontab(minute=15, hour=4),
    "apply_offset": True,
}

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See also

• allianceauth/issues/1286
• allianceauth.allianceauth.backends
• github.com/allianceauth/allianceauth/issues/1060

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Python Requirements

• allianceauth>=3.6

Required Python packages to be installed and other Python requirement.

App Dependencies

Required apps:

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Used by apps:

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Dependencies to other apps registered in this app directory.

Classifiers

• Programming Language :: Python :: 3
• Programming Language :: Python :: 3.10
• Programming Language :: Python :: 3.11
• Programming Language :: Python :: 3.12
• Programming Language :: Python :: 3.13
• Programming Language :: Python :: 3.14