[midPoint] Feature Request - Email Approval

[Pavol Mederly]

Dear Kyle,

Thank you for the detailed proposal. We had an internal discussion about 
it and agreed that email approval is a valuable feature, but we have 
decided not to include it in the midPoint core.

This decision is backed by our effort to minimize security risks and 
keep the core engine lean. Adding mailbox monitoring would introduce 
external dependencies and increase the attack surface.

You could still develop the feature as a standalone application that 
monitors the mailbox and interacts with midPoint via the REST API. This 
modular approach is more secure and the deployment with modern 
containerized environments (Docker/K8s) is straightforward.

If you move forward with this as an independent project, we would be 
happy to list it on our Community Related Projects 
<https://docs.evolveum.com/community/related-projects/> page to give it 
visibility.

Best regards,

-- 
Pavol Mederly
Interim Chief Product Officer
evolveum.com

On 02/02/2026 15:35, Kyle Chau via midPoint wrote:
> Dear MidPoint team,
>
>   I am interested in implementing an email approval feature as my 
> individual contribution to the project. Would you please provide some 
> insight on whether this suggestion would be accepted as a core 
> feature? The implementation, from my understanding, involves the 
> following:
>
>   * A sample message template that crafts the email approval content.
>   * A new task type for enabling and scheduling the mailbox processing.
>
>   I can contribute to the design and development of this feature for 
> the next six months.
>
>   You may refer to the following for a high-level illustration on the 
> proposal. Thank you.
>
>   Do let me know if you have any questions.
>
> https://github.com/KyleChaukccs/docs/blob/master/midpoint/features/planned/email-approval.adoc 
>
>
> Best Regards,
> Kyle
>
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