How to purge non existent and inactive users

Question

Hello all, 
 Here is the thing. Over time a user may leave a company or worse, was uploaded but never came. Yeah, I know. Bad practice. The result is that you have users in the system that 
 
 Never been active 
 Have been active in the past, but from your mailserver you know this email bounces, so this user will never respond again. 
 
 How have you dealt with purging your user base?

Rich Mercer · Accepted Answer

You could create a scheduled task plugin to run say every night, or even once a week that would get all users and based on your criteria, delete them. I'll create an example in my next blog post. I'll update here with a link once I've done it.

Rhys Godfrey · Answer

The 4-Roads guys ( Robert Nash ) also have a plugin for this, but with some extra features to email inactive users etc. aswell

Robert Nash · Answer

Thanks Rhys Godfrey I asked one of the team to reply to this, apparently the message didn't arrive. The git repository github.com/.../FourRoads.TelligentCommunity contains a suite of useful plugins (which you can also get from nuget) The Sentrus plugin (which is site health plugin) contains a user encouragement and deletion tool. We hope that with contributions these plugins will grow and improve them. 
 --Edit 
 Also in one of the plugins https://github.com/4-Roads/FourRoads.TelligentCommunity/tree/master/src/code/FourRoads.TelligentCommunity.ConfigurationExtensions/Enumerations there is an enumerator, this will be moving to the core library soon.