Actually, the field is even more useless than what I wrote below. Again,
email routing (#2 below) is configured at the blog administrator level,
using the email address you configure in your Tomcat.
(roller-nore...@server.com perhaps or similar.) That I didn't change,
it's been like that for some time now (before me being here apparently),
perhaps as an early attempt to do ROL-1469 (provide privacy for the
blogger's email address.) That's all you see in the "from", regardless
of that field.
What's changed is to satisfy ROL-1597 (still allow commenters who
checked "all me to see new comments" even if the blogger doesn't care to
see them), I shifted the right for commenters to see notifications from
the blogger to the blog admin. So long as the blog admin allows
notifications to be sent, and the individual blogger's template has a
"notify me of new comments" in the comment entry field, the commenter
will continue to see subsequent comments regardless of whether the
blogger cares to see them.
The blogger-level notifications checkbox has a changed meaning, it's
independent of the "moderate comments" checkbox. If the blogger checks
"moderate comments", the only emails he will get are notifications to
approve an incoming comment. Whether he approves them or not, that's
the only email he will see. But if he also checks "notify me of posted
comments", he'll get a subsequent email telling him that he just
approved the comment a few minutes ago, or, if he's not choosing to
moderate comments, that will be his notification that a comment was
immediately posted.
Personally, I just need a notification that I need to approve a comment,
so I would just choose "moderate", I don't need another email telling me
I approved it (the current production Roller process that drives me
nuts.) But some people like the noise of getting a subsequent email
that they just approved the comment, so they can choose both "moderate"
and "notification".
Further, at the blog admin level, allowing notifications is kept
separate from comment moderation. Notification is about just allowing
emails that comments were posted (both to the blogger and to subscribers
to the comments for a blog entry), shutting that off has no effect on
moderation -- so long as the blog admin has configured a mail server and
is allowing comments to be posted, the individual blogger may always
choose comment moderation and get the moderation email, and the
commenter will always get one email when the comment was approved. He
or the commenters won't get subsequent notifications--greatly shrinking
mail traffic--but the moderation function will always be in place, as it
is a necessary feature when allowing comments.
Glen
On 06/29/2014 09:42 AM, Dave wrote:
I don't see the need for the change. Email address #1 is the address of the
person (or mailing list) responsible for the weblog and #2 is the email
address to be used when sending comment notifications. These might be the
addresses of two different people (or mailing lists), one assigned to
manage the blog and one assigned to respond to emails re: comments.
The current logic, as far as I can tell, is that comment notification
emails are sent from email address #2 unless it is blank in which case the
comment notification is sent using the email address of the user who
created the weblog entry being commented upon.
Have you tested to confirm that setting the from field does not work? If it
does not, perhaps we should be using a reply-to field instead.
- Dave
On Sat, Jun 28, 2014 at 8:45 PM, Glen Mazza <glen.ma...@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi Team, I'm working on ROL-2018, an email notification routing issue. On
the blog settings page we define two email addresses: (1) for the blog
owner and (2) for the default "from" address for all notifications, where
(2) defaults to (1). The idea being, if (1) is sensitive/private, enter in
(2) so everyone in the world sees (2) instead. I think this is superfluous
-- if (1) is sensitive, just use (2) as the blog owner email address to
begin with. I don't think we need to store two email addresses per blog,
nor do we want to store sensitive email addresses anyway if we can avoid it.
At any rate, Roller is not even using (1) or (2) for sending emails -- it
doesn't know the email account password, so it couldn't anyway, unless
we're to have Roller spoof email addresses. Roller uses the email address
that the blog admin configures in his Java Mail setup (Tomcat server.xml,
for example) for all message routing. So I'm thinking we should remove the
"Default /from/ e-mail address for notifications" field on the blog
settings page. WDYT?
Thanks,
Glen
