[Deploying Sakai] OAE, who's going to use email out

[Eli Cochran]

Nope. What we did was to disable the email in the UI by making the following change:

dev/lib/sakai/sakai.api.communication.js
 
66 66	var toUsers = "";              // aggregates all message recipients
67 67	var sendDone = false;          // has the send been issued?
+  68	
+  69	// Begin CalCentral change
+  70	// Block email delivery of OAE Messages for now.
+  71		sendMail = false;
+  72	// End CalCentral change
68 73
69 74	///////////////////////
70 75	// UTILITY FUNCTIONS //

The commit can be found here:
https://github.com/ets-berkeley-edu/3akai-ux/commit/4991c942ec2aca93f0acb099706c96cdca1a0b5f

Cheers,
Eli

On Aug 25, 2011, at 12:00 PM, Clay Fenlason wrote:

> We had the same impression - when the email bug was fixed we were
> quickly reminded of the issue. Did your disabling involve restoring
> the bug?
> 
> ~Clay
> 
> On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 1:09 PM, Eli Cochran <eli at media.berkeley.edu> wrote:
>> A question (or two) for the OAE Pilot Support Group, (OPS-G?)
>> Here at Berkeley we've disabled email-out because there isn't a UI that
>> allows users set email preferences as to which messages they received. We
>> see a risk that the amount of email generated will discourage use of the
>> system.
>> So there are a couple of questions here:
>> - Who has email turned on for their pilot, or will have email turned on?
>> - Is this an issue that we want to escalate to the URG?
>> Thanks,
>> Eli
>> . . . . . . . . . . .  .  .   .    .      .         .              .
>>              .
>> Eli Cochran
>> User Interaction Developer &
>> Manager of User Experience Design
>> Educational Technology Services, UC Berkeley
>> "The opportunity lost by increasing the amount of blank space is gained back
>> with enhanced attention to what remains."
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Eli Cochran
project manager, CalCentral project
manager of user experience design
Educational Technology Services, U.C. Berkeley

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