Re: [Bodington-developers] Group Emailer

[Naomi M. <na...@sm...>]

There is no opt-in or opt-out functionality at the mo.

On 4 May 2006, at 15:47, Adam Marshall wrote:

> Was anybody from UHI going to respond to any of my other queries  
> (ie, those
> in the first half which Al didn't comment upon)?
>
> We're quite keen to be involved in the speccing out of this tool to  
> make it
> as useful as possible.
>
> adam
>
> | -----Original Message-----
> |
> | On 2 May 2006, at 10:30, Adam Marshall wrote:
> |
> | >
> | >
> | >
> | > 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
> | >
> | From: bod...@li...  
> [mailto:bodington-
> | dev...@li...] On Behalf Of Alistair Young
> | Sent: 02 May 2006 10:36
> | To: bod...@li...
> | Subject: Re: [Bodington-developers] Group Emailer
> |
> | I can maybe answer some backend questions Adam.
> |
> | > Do you use this LDAP-sourced email for notifications
> | we use the email that's against their record in the bod database. In
> | our case, that comes from LDAP. The source of the email address will
> | be different for different installations of bod.
> |
> | > Does this get overwritten each time the LDAP
> | > feed is processed?
> | yes, for us anyway.
> |
> | > What's if a user gets married and their email address is
> | > changed, does this new address get imported?
> | yes. We use institutional email addresses from LDAP, not personal
> | hotmail ones.
> |
> | > What happens to bounces, say if the user mailbox is full?
> | I would have said - they'd be ignored. If the user can't manage  
> their
> | inbox that's their problem. In our case, their inbox is managed by
> | UHI so it would be a helpdesk issue.
> |
> | Alistair
> |
>
>
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