[Bodington-developers] Group Emailer

[Adam M. <ada...@co...>]

Bodders:

We've just had a bit of a gab here about the UHI group emailer. 

In principle we're very interested in this tool as quite a few of our users
have been badgering us for a similar sort of functionality. We'd like to
open up discussion about this. Hope this is OK

The main issue we have is that we feel that there should be an installation
option as to whether the whole thing is opt-in or opt-out process. It sounds
like UHI imagine it an opt out process, we'd like it to be opt-in! How about
something like the following (supported by some underlying code obviously).

"You belong to these groups.  Please indicate which groups you are happy to
join for email.  This will mean that any member of a specific group will be
able to send email to the signed up members of this group.  Email will be
handled by the system, so users will not gain access to individual email
addresses"

We also have some questions:

Can users change their 'default' email address, ie, the one that comes from
the LDAP? Or is this fixed? Does this get overwritten each time the LDAP
feed is processed? What's if a user gets married and their email address is
changed, does this new address get imported?

Do you use this LDAP-sourced email for notifications, or are there 2
separate emails in the system?

Is there a facility to state who can email who? We're concerned that people
may 'spam colleagues'.

What happens to bounces, say if the user mailbox is full?

Cheers

adam