I'm not entirely certain that one is actually receiving an auto-log-in link with those emails - I could be wrong of course, but I always assumed it was just holding onto my cookie from my previous log-in... even over weeks at a time.

It's certainly useful when it does that and you can achieve that effect for DNN by reducing the cookie death rate. I do this:

In web.config in <authentication mode="Forms"> section (about line 105)
Set timeout="10080" which is one week – default 60.

You could make it go for a month, or some period that suits the frequency your visitors are expected to drop in at.

Rob

I'm still looking for a solution....
I cannot imagine this hasn't been solved by somebody already........

Erik, I agree, it shouldn't be that difficult to do, I just couldn't imagine nobody solved the problem before.

As I learned from your last lecture I didn't want to reinvent the wheel....

The deadline for this is at least  half a year away... so I am not in a hurry...

By the way the module you describe could already do more then I would need, I just want to have a group of users that should be able to log in using a link but I still need to know who has "logged in"

This is to make it as easy as possible for them, they could just bookmark the link to access the site.