Forum OpenACS Development: Get the notification message different

1: Get the notification message different

Posted by Vamshi Krishna Kaniganti on 11/03/03 09:47 AM

hi
can anybody please help me out how to modify changes in the from address for the automatic notifications

i want to modify
mailto:notification-2020-862@azri.biz
instead of this i shuld get

mailto:notification-DevelopmentProblems@azri.biz

where my 862 is the forum_id
2020 is my message_id

thanks
regards
vamshi

The below is sample message how i am gettin now
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mailto:notification-2020-862@azri.biz

To :
mailto:vkkaniganti@hotmail.com

Subject :
Checking what is comming

Date :
Mon, 03 Nov 2003 08:08:45 GMT

Reply Reply All Forward Delete Printer Friendly Version

Forum: Development Problems
Thread: Checking what is comming
Author: Vamshi Krishna Kaniganti (mailto:vkkaniganti@hotmail.com)

checking
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2: Re: Add Email Header Fields (was: Get the notification message different) (response to 1)

Posted by Dirk Gomez on 11/04/03 09:49 AM

I wish we were adding at least one descriptive email header attribute e.g.:

X-OpenACS: $forum_name

or somesuch.

3: Re: Add Email Header Fields (was: Get the notification message different) (response to 2)

Posted by Vamshi Krishna Kaniganti on 11/04/03 10:42 AM

Thanks for replying

where shuld i use the $forum_name as the notifications are called automatically, i could not get from where it is called

i could not get your point , let me explain it properly
when u posted to this message i got a mail
from : mailto:notification-139776-2962@openacs.org

instead of this i want like
from : mailto:notification-OpenACSDevelopment-Forum@openacs.org

4: Re: Add Email Header Fields (was: Get the notification message different) (response to 3)

Posted by Tilmann Singer on 11/04/03 12:34 PM

The link looks this way because it is intended to be replied to and associated automatically to the object it refers to, so that you can for example answer to a forum thread by email (an optional feature of forums that has to be set up deliberately).

I guess there is no UI place to change it, you have to dig in the notifications code.

5: Re: Get the notification message different (response to 1)

Posted by Raad Al-Rawi on 11/05/03 03:02 PM

Hi Vamshi

You could implement a change to the notifications code in order to achieve what you want, by changing the reply_address proc in packages/notifications/tcl/notification-email-procs.tcl:

Amend the line:

return "[address_domain] mailer <[reply_address_prefix]-$object_id-$type_id@[address_domain]>"

return "[reply_address_prefix]-[acs_object_name $object_id]@[address_domain]>"

Don't forget that the notifications package parameters EmailDomain and EmailReplyAddressPrefix need to be set according to what you want.

I don't know if this can break due to a failure to find the object name, so I can't guarantee it will work sensibly in all cases but it might do the trick.

It would be good to expose/parameterise this in the UI somehow, in case people don't want to use the reply-by-email feature. Maybe another parameter ObjectNameInReplyAddress? Any volunteers? :)

HTH

<Raad>

6: Re: Get the notification message different (response to 5)

Posted by Vamshi Krishna Kaniganti on 11/06/03 08:39 AM

thanks Raad
i have tried this method long back but could not get the solution so i have posted in the forums, please help me out doing i am doing some where wrong i could not get it

the mails are comming as i said before in my post,

This was the code i implemented to test it ,
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#adding the name to the object id instead of id
db_0or1row object {select acs_object.name(temp.context_id) as object_name from (select context_id from acs_objects where object_id = :object_id) temp }
sss
return "[address_domain] mailer <[reply_address_prefix]-$object_name-$type_id@[address_domain]>"

Thanks
vamshi

7: Re: Get the notification message different (response to 1)

Posted by Raad Al-Rawi on 11/07/03 01:38 PM

Vamshi

When you make changes to any .xql files, or to .tcl files that are under a package's TCL directory, the changes are not implemented instantly/dynamically by default.
You will need to either watch the file being changed (using the package manager), or restart your instance of OpenACS - it sounds like this could be why you are not seeing your changes.

Oh, you might like to use the [acs_object_name $object_id] method rather than executing the query - it should do the job properly and it's tidier code :)

<Raad>

8: Re: Get the notification message different (response to 7)

Posted by Vamshi Krishna Kaniganti on 11/07/03 02:10 PM

Thanks Raad,
i have done everything as you said before but it was not working, i am not able to trace out

when an messges is posted in the form if the particular user has the notifications , then some event or something shuld be called such that the message is inserted into the proper database,
so the notification-email-procs.tcl file their is an api
of send where it is called i am not able to get that one ,

thanks
vamshi

9: Re: Get the notification message different (response to 8)

Posted by Raad Al-Rawi on 11/07/03 02:28 PM

Vamshi

I'm not sure I follow you exactly there!

Let's check one thing at a time - have you set the package manager to watch the notification-email-procs.tcl file?

<Raad>

10: Re: Get the notification message different (response to 9)

Posted by Vamshi Krishna Kaniganti on 11/07/03 03:02 PM

thanks Raad it was working

we have restarted the server again then it was working & sorry for troubling you so much,

thanks
vamshi

11: Re: Get the notification message different (response to 10)

Posted by Raad Al-Rawi on 11/07/03 03:10 PM

No problem!

Glad you got it in the end :)

<R>