topic Re: 'From' field at sending email in Alfresco Archive

'From' field at sending email

palba — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 09:07:57 GMT

Hi all.I have a little problem, and i've been unable to find a solition trougth the documentation, so here it is…As a part of a workflow, I have to send an email to the user. I do it with the following javascript code:var mail = actions.create("mail");mail.parameters.to = "test@test.com";mail.parame

Re: 'From' field at sending email

sethatrothbury — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 17:07:59 GMT

Hey Palba,

We ran into this problem a while back and brought it up in a ticket. After looking for ourselves, we realized what the problem was:
We looked into the Java behind the email action and found the faulty code in org.alfresco.repo.action.executor.MailActionExecutor in the Alfresco 3.1.1 SDK.


  // set the from address
  NodeRef person = personService.getPerson(authService.getCurrentUserName());
  String fromActualUser = (String)nodeService.getProperty(person, ContentModel.PROP_EMAIL);
  if( fromActualUser != null && fromActualUser.length() != 0)
   {
     message.setFrom(fromActualUser);
   }
   else
   {
     String from = (String)ruleAction.getParameterValue(PARAM_FROM);
      if (from == null || from.length() == 0)
        {
          message.setFrom(fromAddress);
        }
       else
       {
          message.setFrom(from);
       }
    }
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So you can see the first thing it tries to do is retrieve the authenticated user. Then it tries to retrieve that user’s email property. If one is set it uses that, ignoring any action parameters. Only if the user doesn’t have an email set does it use the action parameter.

You could extend your own version of the action handler, thats what we ended up doing.

-Seth

Re: 'From' field at sending email

palba — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 07:46:31 GMT

Hi, Seth.

You're right. I checked the source of MailActionExecutor, and the bug is still present at Alfresco 3.2.

I'll try to figure out a workaround. Thank you for the hint!

Re: 'From' field at sending email

uskiki85 — Thu, 18 Aug 2011 13:39:11 GMT

The bug is still present at Alfresco 3.4.d

Any workaround ?

Re: 'From' field at sending email

mikeh — Thu, 18 Aug 2011 13:57:05 GMT

Did anyone raise this issue in JIRA? If not, it's highly unlikely to have been fixed.

Mike

Re: 'From' field at sending email

uskiki85 — Mon, 22 Aug 2011 09:48:25 GMT

I have found a fix for 3.1

MailActionExecuter.java : http://issues.alfresco.com/jira/browse/ALF-459

I make a try to adapt to 3.4.d