In the RWI under "Transfer Management", "End User Messaging", "Transfers 
to Your Account", there is a section titled "Transfer Successfully 
Completed Message Customization".

Unlike all the other sections, it does not have a "Yes/No" button to 
disable it. Is this message always sent?

If so, that's a problem for me, and I'd like to request that it be 
possible to turn this off. In our case, people transfer their domains to 
us because they're signing up for Web hosting and domain transfer as a 
package, and we don't send them "transfer complete" messages until their 
Web site is working on our servers (i.e., nameservers updated and TTLs 
expired).

A customer today was complaining about how we'd told him his domain had 
been successfully transferred even though it wasn't working yet (and 
indeed it wasn't working, because the DNS updates weren't complete). 
Since we'd never sent him a message saying anything but "the transfer is 
still in progress", I assumed he was being an idiot, but it turns out 
that without me realizing it, people have been receiving that message 
from OpenSRS saying that "the domain has successfully been transferred". 
(Looking back in the docs, I see that this message was added to the 
system a few months ago, but I didn't realize that it apparently couldn't 
be turned off.)

Anyway, my system is designed to make the whole thing (domain transfer, 
DNS updates) appear to be different steps of the same "Web site transfer 
process", and it's unhelpful to have these messages sent saying "the 
transfer is complete" -- when in fact the "Web site transfer process" 
that I tell my customers about is not yet complete. I would very much 
like to be able to turn these messages off.

(By the way, this [unwanted, in my case] mandatory message being added is 
ironic, because I've been whining for the last year that a message needs 
to be sent to the RESELLER when a domain transfer completes, and that 
still hasn't been implemented. Now everyone knows about completed domain 
transfers the second they happen, except me!)

--
Robert L Mathews, Tiger Technologies

"The trouble with doing something right the first time is that nobody
appreciates how difficult it was."

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