Forum OpenACS Development: Re: Notifications in various packages like news

7: Re: Notifications in various packages like news (response to 1)

Posted by Don Baccus on 01/16/03 06:31 PM

Why not coordinate with Jeff Davis on it? Your patch included several things, including IIRC turning off e-mail responses to notifications altogether (which we want to make a parameter, as some will want to allow e-mail responses and other won't).

We could certainly apply the From:/Reply-to: portion of your patch but if you have time it might be nice to add an e-mail response configuration parameter that optionally triggers that portion of your patch(es).

8: Re: Notifications in various packages like news (response to 7)

Posted by Bart Teeuwisse on 01/16/03 06:47 PM

My patches contain an optional tcl script that qmail could use to return a more meaningfull response when e-mail responses to notifications are not implemented.

Respond to an OpenACS notification and you'll receive a qmail error message. With the optional tcl script in place you'd receive a message explaining that responses to the discussion go through the openacs.org web site.

So, the patches don't change the current design of the notifications. In order to switch the acceptance of e-mail responses with a parameter, AOLServer would have to handle the incoming responses in both cases.

/Bart

10: Re: Notifications in various packages like news (response to 7)

Posted by Roberto Mello on 01/16/03 11:32 PM

Don,

I made the changes to notifications to give it a parameter to turn on/off incoming mail checking alltogether. It went in before 4.6 final was cut.

-Roberto