Re: [Rolodap-develop] Mail System Contributions

[John L. <jo...@jh...>]

Phil--

I should have replied to this right away but I circulated it to a couple 
of people whom I knew to be using Rolodap to do large mailings.

They were quite enthusiastic about all the improvements. Neither seemed 
excited about sending .rtf, but they both like Ekit for html.

John



Philip Ward wrote:

>Happy New Year to one and all.
>
>I've made a few enhancements to Rolodap's mail system and I'd like to offer 
>them to the main distribution. Rather then just send a bunch of patches I'll 
>list what I have, and any project admins can let me know which (if any) of 
>these features you would like. I'll then attempt to filter out any unwanted 
>changes before contributing the patches.
>
>Here's the list:-
>Audit trail - All emails sent using Rolodap are recorded in the directory, and 
>attachments are date stamped and placed in <rolodap_home>/attach. This trail 
>is searchable using a new "Search Audit Trail" page (cannibalised from the 
>advanced search page).
>
>Multiple attachments - Instead of only being offered one attachment you can 
>hit the "More Attachments" or "Less Attachments" buttons and add as many 
>attachments as you like.
>
>Email Signatures - Configure your email signature on the "User Preferences" 
>page and it will automatically add the signature to all emails.
>
>Rich Text Emails - Users can choose Plain Text (the current situation) or 
>select Rich Text for their emails. Selecting Rich Text replaces the textarea 
>with the EKit HTML editor applet. Ekit is available at http://www.hexidec.com 
>and is a GPLed Java applet. Users can set in their preferences which style of 
>email they wish to use by default.
>
>Regards,
>
>Phil Ward.
>
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