>>> [!note] Migrated issue <!-- Drupal.org comment --> <!-- Migrated from issue #1885736. --> Reported by: [martin mayer](https://www.drupal.org/user/410098) >>> <p>Overview<br> --------<br> Allows filefield downloads to be restricted until the requester confirms the email address. This email address is stored in the database and reported back to privileged users. The requester receives a mail with a link to the requested file.</p> <p>Features<br> --------<br> Captures file downloads of files which are provided through a filefield and configured as tracked. Anonymous users are redirected to a form where they can enter their email address, instead of immediately starting the download (which would be standard behavior). After submitting the email address, they receive an email witch contains the download link as well as configurable subject and text areas. </p> <p>For logged in users the download starts immediately as usual.</p> <p>Download statistics of tracked files by anonymous and logged in users are provided under Reports / Tracked downloads. </p> <p>Requirements<br> ------------<br> The File module (from Core) must be enabled.<br> A content type must contain a filefield.<br> A configured mail server</p> <p>Configuration<br> -------------<br> Install as usual. Click the "manage display" tab of the content type which contains the filefield which you want to be tracked. Set the format of the filefield to "Generic file (with tracking)". Save the display settings. </p> <p>Go to configuration / content authoring / Filefield Mail Configuration. Insert the subject of the mail, the text of the body field before (e.g. Thank you for your interest..) and behind (e.g. Sincerely, Your Fubar Team) the download link. Save the configuration. </p> <p>Make sure that Public file system path under Configuration / File Systems is set correctly.</p> <p>Recommended Modules<br> -------------------<br> It is strongly recommended to use Captcha or a module with similar functionality. FileField Mail sends a email to an address provided by an anonymous user. Therefore it can be misused by malicious software to fill someones mailbox. Prevent this by using a module which ensures that the user is human. </p> <p>Similar Projects<br> ----------------<br> See <a href="http://drupal.org/node/1613392">http://drupal.org/node/1613392</a> for a comparison of download tracking modules. </p> <p>Filefield track and Webform Protected Downloads are similar modules, because they have D7 versions and collect an e-mail address from the<br> user. </p> <p>Filefield track captures the download and redirects the user to a form. The user can enter an email address. Filefield track does not send an email, but starts the download immediately after submission. Thus, the email address is not verified and any formally correct address will be accepted. </p> <p>Webform Protected Downloads tracks file downloads only from webforms. It does not track downloads from content types. It replaces the download link in a webform with a field to insert the email address. The replacement of the link makes the page less readable for the user, especially if the page contains a whole list of links. Webform Protected Downloads sends an email to the address to verify it. The text of the mail with the download link can not be configured. </p> <p>Filefield Mail combines features of both modules and extends them. It tracks filefields in content types. The links are not replaced, so that they still lock the way they were configured. The mail address is<br> verified by sending an email. The text of the email can be configured.</p> <p>Some of the code is taken from those two modules. Thank you guys :-)</p> <p>Why a new module?<br> -----------------<br> The functionalities of Webform Protected Downloads and FileField Mail can not be merged, since one focuses exclusively on webforms and the other on all kind of content types. It might have been possible to write a patch for Fielfield Track. This would have been a very extensive patch. But there are clear reasons against that.</p> <p>FileField Track has some functionality, which does not make sense for FileField Mail, e.g. the "URL to file (with tracking)" format and setting cookies. It would not be appropriate to remove this functionality in a patch.</p> <p>The FileField Track module uses cookies to relieve the unregistered user from having to type the e-mail address repeatedly for every download. This may be useful if the download starts immediately after insertion of the address and the visitors computer is used only by one person.</p> <p>But it prevents the visitor from having different downloads sent to different email accounts. And it becomes a problem, if more than one visitors share the same computer without different user accounts. Therefore, FileField Mail omits using cookies.</p> <p>This different necessities are mutually exclusive and can not sensibly be built into the same module.</p> <p><a href="http://drupal.org/node/894256">http://drupal.org/node/894256</a> says: "Module duplication (lower priority) makes it hard to find the right module". This problem is addressed for the download tracker modules through <a href="http://drupal.org/node/1613392">http://drupal.org/node/1613392</a>, where the differences are clearly visible. </p> <p>FileField Mail has been running for several month on the productive site of a large company in the chemical industry. As I have heard no complaints about it, it seems fairly stable.</p> <p>FileField Mail is for D7</p> <p>Link to my project page:<br> <a href="http://drupal.org/sandbox/MartinMayer/1877466">http://drupal.org/sandbox/MartinMayer/1877466</a></p> <p>Link to my git repository:<br> <a href="http://git.drupal.org/sandbox/MartinMayer/1877466.git">http://git.drupal.org/sandbox/MartinMayer/1877466.git</a> 7.x-1.x</p> <p>Reviews of other projects:<br> <a href="http://drupal.org/node/1100840#comment-6389798">http://drupal.org/node/1100840#comment-6389798</a><br> <a href="http://drupal.org/node/1711898#comment-6996386">http://drupal.org/node/1711898#comment-6996386</a> and <a href="http://drupal.org/node/1711898#comment-6999656">http://drupal.org/node/1711898#comment-6999656</a> (they concern the same review)<br> <a href="http://drupal.org/node/1846194#comment-7001388">http://drupal.org/node/1846194#comment-7001388</a></p>