[ome-devel] Email Util Design

[Douglas Russell]

As far as my web form for sending email as concerned, I've programmed it to
use the existing capabilities in webadmin to send email. This has the
advantage of at least being able to check if the mail sending capabilities
have been configured in order to offer them.

I see there are settings as you say for configuring resetpassword. I don't
really know how this LocalAdmin stuff works. I assume that this is made
available in some way to the Python CLI. So I guess if desired I can put my
code to resolve users/groups into a set of email addresses into the
utilities as it sounds that this is the only missing link?

Douglas


On 25 November 2013 10:23, Aleksandra Tarkowska <A.Tarkowska at dundee.ac.uk>wrote:

>  Hi Douglas
>
>  I think that functionality shouldn't be only limited to OMERO.web. We
> already have in place working (I hope so) email sending bean on the server
> side to reset password.
>
>  Please look at omero.properties # reset password
>
>  ############################################
> # Reset password properties
> ############################################
> omero.resetpassword.bean=defaultMailSender
> omero.resetpassword.config=false
> omero.resetpassword.from=ADDRESS at domain
> omero.resetpassword.host=smtp.domain
> omero.resetpassword.port=25
> omero.resetpassword.username=
> omero.resetpassword.password=
> omero.resetpassword.mail.transport.protocol=smtp
> omero.resetpassword.mail.smtp.auth=false
> omero.resetpassword.mail.debug=false
> omero.resetpassword.mail.smtp.starttls.enable=false
> omero.resetpassword.mail.smtp.socketFactory.class=javax.net.SocketFactory
> omero.resetpassword.mail.smtp.socketFactory.fallback=false
> omero.resetpassword.mail.smtp.socketFactory.port=25
> omero.resetpassword.mail.smtp.timeout=25000
>
>  If you look in IAdmin for
>
>  private boolean sendEmail(Experimenter e, String newPassword)
>
>  I think with the small adjustment we could move it to LocalAdmin
> interface and make it public.
> If you need any help with this please let me know.
>
>  I hope that make sense
>
>  Kind regards
> Ola
>
>   From: Douglas Russell <douglas.russell at bioch.ox.ac.uk>
> Date: Saturday, 23 November 2013 16:48
> To: Devel <ome-devel at lists.openmicroscopy.org.uk>
> Subject: [ome-devel] Email Util Design
>
>   Hi,
>
>  Posted this on the wrong list initially, please follow up here.
>
>  I'm adding an email announcement page to the admin tabs in the web
> client. Chris mentioned there was a desire to add more email capability to
> the CLI so I've implemented the web app to use an email sending back-end in
> utils.
>
>  I've already written the actual email sending functions in utils, but
> now there are some design decisions to make.
>
>  *OMERO Connection in Utils*
> Is it desired that utils are not dependant on an OMERO connection? The web
> client interface I've designed offers an admin the opportunity to select
> all-users, some groups, some users and there is a text field for arbitrary
> cc. I can do the resolution of omeName/id and groupId to sets of email
> addresses in the webclient code, but if it would be useful, I can put it in
> utils instead? Obviously this relies on having an OMERO connection in the
> utils, I would just pass it in from the calling function.
>
>  *Configuration*
> The current configuration parameters are for the web:
>
>  omero.web.server_email "webmaster at example.com"
>  omero.web.email_host "email.example.com"
>  omero.web.email_host_user "username"
>  omero.web.email_host_password "password"
>  omero.web.email_host_port "2255"
>  omero.web.email_use_tls "True"
>  omero.web.email_subject_prefix "Subject prefix for outgoing e-mail"
>
>  Options:
>
>    1. Use these settings everywhere (wont make much sense)
>    2. Define additional settings (bit clumsy)
>    3. Change these setttings to more general ones and have the web use
>    those (more work and requires config changes on existing servers).
>
> Also, obviously the web currently has the capability to send email. Should
> this be modified to use this generic email system?
>
>  Thoughts?
>
>  Douglas
>
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