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Setting Email Header Values

mrhill — Tue, 04 Jul 2017 17:42:52 GMT

Hello,In order that emails sent I need to set an email header value. I can only find documentation (Email Server configuration | Alfresco Documentation) for a very small set of email configuration. Does anyone know how to set additional email header values?Thanks,Michael

Re: Setting Email Header Values

cjose — Wed, 05 Jul 2017 19:18:49 GMT

What are those additional email header values you referring to? can you please give a few examples?

Ciju

Re: Setting Email Header Values

mrhill — Wed, 05 Jul 2017 19:39:52 GMT

Sure, the options are endless as email header values are key value pairs and you should be able to add anything you like.

Good useful examples are X-header. In general X-header can refer to any non-standard header added during the sending of an email. Some examples of X-headers are:

X-Protective-Marking
X-Mailer
X-Spam-Reason
X-Brightmail-Tracker

Of particular importance to me is the X-Protective-Marking as used is government emails to properly allow access through email filters. https://www.google.ca/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=5&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwjlnJmS8fLUAhVD2T4KHWFVDbQQFgg1M…

Thanks,

Michael

Re: Setting Email Header Values

cjose — Wed, 05 Jul 2017 20:23:17 GMT

That makes perfect sense. Since you are using APS (enterprise version), please feel free to raise a new feature request that will allow users to inject additional custom headers to all emails. A new custom extension point (Hook points | Alfresco Documentation) would be the simplest and easiest to solve this.

In the mean time, a workaround might be to use a service task/task listener/event listener etc to send emails where you can add additional headers when sending emails. eg: activiti-examples/activiti-custom-email-extension at master · cijujoseph/activiti-examples · GitHub

Ciju

Re: Setting Email Header Values

mrhill — Thu, 06 Jul 2017 13:14:39 GMT

Thanks Ciju!