Resend user invite email always expired after 72 hours

[karltynan]

Which Umbraco version are you using? (Please write the exact version, example: 10.1.0)

10.7.0

Bug summary

If you invite a user and they do not start or finish the invitation process, the email link expires after 72 hours - this is as expected and is working correctly.

However, if you resend the invitation to the user, the email link is already expired (even within the 72 hours window). Deleting the user and trying the invite process again also yields the same result - the email link is already expired.

Specifics

This happens only for users who have not yet started the invite process, or after deleting a user and trying again.

Steps to reproduce

1. Invite a user and allow the invite link to expire
2. Try the link and it should be expired (correct)
3. After expiry, resend the invitation to the user
4. Try the link and it is already expired (incorrect)
5. Delete the user
6. Invite the same user fresh
7. Try the link and it is already expired (incorrect)

Expected result / actual result

• A user should be able to follow the invitation process within 72 hours of initial invite email
• A user should be able to follow the resent invitation process within 72 hours of resent invite email
• A previously deleted user should be able to follow the invitation process within 72 hours of new invite email

[github-actions]

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[bjarnef]

I wonder if this also is valid on Umbraco Cloud?
I investigated a user invite, where the invitation was expired. I deleted the user invite from the portal and re-sent an user invite from backoffice, which shown up in the portal to expire in ~5 days.

This specific project is on Umbraco v10.5.1

When user state is "Invited", could we shown the Expiration Date at the user info, as shown in Umbraco Cloud portal?

User invite says 72 hours, but doesn't match the user invite expire date shown in the portal.

[andr317c]

Hey,

Thanks for posting this issue. I tried reproducing your issue on version 10.7.0 using SMTP, but when I got to step 4 of your reproduction steps, the invitation link worked and I was able to create the user without any issues.
Are you able to reproduce this issue on a clean install of Umbraco?

[karltynan]

Sorry, I have been on annual leave recently. I can check if this works on a clean install, but that will take a little while of course.

The only other thing that might be worth adding is we are using a simple (as per docs) load-balanced setup. Could this have any impact?

[karltynan]

We found the issue (on our setup at least) and we have emailed support to see if we should open a new issue.

We added this in startup.cs, which caused invalid tokens when encoding/decoding:

services.AddRouting(options =>
{
    options.LowercaseUrls = true;
    options.LowercaseQueryStrings = true;
});

Removing options.LowercaseQueryStrings fixed the problem and email invites worked as expected (invites were always working as expected, but the token was invalid so Umbraco thought it was expired).