Hi,
I was trying to maximum utilize this module along with external phorum mail module. My requirement was like this -
"Every forum present in my site should have a UNIQUE email id for them to RECEIVE the emails, the mails posted to that mails should be delivered to members of that forum (alone). Thus even without visiting the website, users should be able to communicate back and forth through email, undisturbed by the existence of other forums in the same site. (i.e. Just like the way yahoo groups function. For me a forum within the phorum installation is similar to one yahoo group)"
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I am using "External phorum mail" module to RECEIVE emails to the phorum and "Group auto email" module to SEND all new mails to everyone who keeps the Group auto email feature "ON" in control center.
I know that I can configure multiple email accounts with "External phorum mail" module to RECEIVE emails - this is really positive!
But the "Group auto email" module currently takes only one email id that is configured in the "General settings" section of the Forum website to be shown in the "From email" section of the mail. - This is really negative!
I want to specify/choose/provide a different email id as "From email" in the SEND message depending on the forum on which the message got posted, so that I can configure multiple email accounts in "External phorum email" module. This will result in users posting to different forums sending their mails to different email addresses, and receiving emails from different email addresses; or in short without conflict multiple forums can co-exist and depend on emails for sending and receiving messages/posts.
I knew that to implement this I will have to tweak or modify the "group_autoemail.php" file that is part of the "Group Auto Email module".
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And even though not a coder I was able to figure out how to do it! And now I am able to maintain unique email id for different forums. and forums can exist without interfering with the mail communication happening related to other forums! This is what I did -
There was a line in the group_autoemail.php that reads -
Language: PHP
$headers = "From: $sender_name <$sender_address>\r\n";
I modified this section with the following conditional code -
Language: PHP
if(strip_tags($PHORUM["DATA"]["NAME"])=="ABC"){ //ABC is the name of one forum
$headers = "From: ABC <ABC@XYZ.com>\r\n"; //Mail address for one forum
}
else if (strip_tags($PHORUM["DATA"]["NAME"])=="PQR"){ //PQR is the name of another forum
$headers = "From: PQR <PQR@XYZ.com>\r\n"; //Mail address for another forum
}
else{
$headers = "From: $sender_name <$sender_address>\r\n";
}
Now it works wonderfully!
I think this functionality should be inbuilt and part of the group_autoemail module itself. Because we not only want to send out all new mails to members who had registered/subscribed/joined specific forums, but also want to show DIFFERENT EMAIL IDs as the sender_email_address for these forums and also want to receive mails by accessing these different accounts by using "External Phorum mail module". Then only the circles becomes complete and the picture becomes perfect. :) I hope someone will include such an enhancement to group_autoemail module.
Note: ext_phorummail module and group_autoemail module are simply superb! Hats-off to Thomas Seifert for writing these two modules.
Regards,
Sreenadh
Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 09/25/2010 08:32AM by Sreenadh OG.
