Forum OpenACS Q&A: Re: Re: ns_sendmail replacement?

5: Re: Re: ns_sendmail replacement? (response to 4)

Posted by Tilmann Singer on 10/31/02 11:16 AM

I wouldn't dare making it _require_ qmail, just as an option. It should be possible to build it in a way that it can still call ns_sendmail or dump it to another mailer using the appropriate command instead of qmail-inject.

The forums notifications could really use nicer From: addresses. I thought that maybe instead of

From: OpenACS Q/A Forum <mailto:notification-56476-2960@openacs.org>

they could even be set to the posters full name, as it is the case with mails from most mailing lists. Then it'd just need a Reply-To: mailto:notification-1234@openacs.org header so that replies go to the notifications incoming email handler if this is set up.

14: Re: ns_sendmail replacement? (response to 5)

Posted by Bart Teeuwisse on 12/10/02 11:36 PM

A related problem is that ns_sendmail (in aolserver/modules/tcl/sendmail.tcl) discards everything but the <notification-56476-2960@openacs.org> part of an e-mail address.

The notifications package is configured to send out messages from [address_domain] mailer <[reply_address_prefix]@[address_domain]. In the case of OpenACS these messages would show up as coming from 'OpenACS mailer' if it wasn't for ns_sendmail.

My vote goes to 'fixing' ns_sendmail, adding a Reply-To header to notifications and replacing the from address with the name and e-mail of the poster (for forums).

/Bart

15: Re: ns_sendmail replacement? (response to 14)

Posted by Talli Somekh on 01/15/03 06:35 AM

Bart said: "My vote goes to 'fixing' ns_sendmail, adding a Reply-To header to notifications and replacing the from address with the name and e-mail of the poster (for forums)."

Bart, you said you have a fix for this? I would like to use it, but actually not for forums but for notifications-enabled news.

Do you have a patch or something?

TIA

talli