Forum OpenACS Q&A: How to set reply url in bboard e-mail notification?

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1: How to set reply url in bboard e-mail notification?
Posted by Jeroen Leijen on 04/10/02 03:58 PM
This text is an excerpt from a notification sent by my Openacs 4.5 test server:
>To reply you can go to:
>http://delix:8000/forum/message?message_id=3482&forum_id=2990
>To unsubscribe from this or other bboard posts go to:
>http://delix:8000/forum/subscriptions

How do you change the domainname of the url shown above?
SystemURL in Parameters for ACS Kernel is set to http://delix.leijen.net:8000.
Doesn't the bboard module use the SystemURL parameter to compose notifications messages?

TNX
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2: Response to How to set reply url in bboard e-mail notification? (response to 1)
Posted by Simon Carstensen on 04/10/02 10:17 PM
Nope, it uses:
[ad_conn location][ad_conn package_url]subscriptions

[ad_conn location] finds information about the current HTTP connection and does not look at the SystemURL parameter. You should setup AOLserver to handle http://delix.leijen.net:8000 instead of http://delix:8000.

Simon

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3: Response to How to set reply url in bboard e-mail notification? (response to 1)
Posted by Tom Jackson on 04/10/02 10:32 PM

That is very strange, so this notice can only be sent out using a connection thread, which doesn't seem that good. It would be nice if a procedure handled this and it knew what the system url was for a particular message.

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4: Response to How to set reply url in bboard e-mail notification? (response to 1)
Posted by Simon Carstensen on 04/10/02 10:58 PM
[ad_conn location] should not be used. Use instead [ad_url]:

[ad_url][ad_conn package_url]subscriptions

and you get http://foobar.com instead of http://foobar:8000 in your email alerts.

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5: Response to How to set reply url in bboard e-mail notification? (response to 1)
Posted by Armando Arroyo on 04/10/02 11:02 PM
My answer is related to ACS4 (not OACS 4.5) I have never used OACS 4.5.
host name link change in bboard look in /usr/local/aolserver
vi sample-config.tcl
inside the .tcl you can change the
ns_param Hostname
to the specific one you want
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6: Response to How to set reply url in bboard e-mail notification? (response to 1)
Posted by Simon Carstensen on 04/10/02 11:03 PM
BTW, this code is part of the bboard_alert_message proc residing in bboard-procs.tcl
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7: Response to How to set reply url in bboard e-mail notification? (response to 1)
Posted by Don Baccus on 04/10/02 11:17 PM
Tom - the e-mail alert is built when you post the message, so it is known that you're in a connection thread.

The code that actually posts the message doesn't need to run in a connection thread.

Your basic premise - that this is some pretty stupid code - is, however, correct.  Just not for the reason you have in mind. :)