A welcome email when developers sign up
New Authdog platform accounts now receive a Welcome to Authdog email automatically. Mail failure never blocks signup.
From the changelog: Welcome email on platform signup
Authdog Team
Signing up for Authdog created the account and dropped the developer into the console. There was no automatic "you are in" email, so the first message they saw was whatever they triggered next — or nothing.
Platform signup now sends a Welcome to Authdog email as soon as the account exists.
This is the longer note behind the August 23 changelog entry.
How it works
The identity service renders welcomeEmail (subject plus HTML and text bodies) and sends it through Postmark when a server token is configured (POSTMARK_SERVER_TOKEN, POSTMARK_TOKEN, or POSTMARK_KEY). The from address is POSTMARK_FROM or EMAIL_FROM, defaulting to [email protected].
The send is fire-and-forget relative to signup:
- Missing recipient → skip
- Postmark not configured → log and skip
- Provider error → log, do not throw
A failed welcome email must not block account creation. This is the same inline-fetch pattern the magic-link and email-OTP request handlers use inside the identity app.
This mail is for developers signing up for Authdog, not for end users in your environment. End-user invite and welcome behavior is a separate path (sendInvite on console-created users).
Trust boundaries
The email proves we accepted a signup address, not that the mailbox owner finished verification. Do not put secrets or session material in the template. If Postmark is unset in an environment, signup still succeeds and no mail goes out.
Try it
Create a new platform account in an environment with Postmark configured and check the inbox. The original release note is in the changelog.