[Building Sakai] Site Helper and E-Mail messages

[Branden Visser]

I've written a patch to address this problem [1], we've had it in 
production for about a week.

If there is no objection to Site Notification only notifying users who 
are members in the site realm, we would like it to be included in 2.7.

Best,

Branden

[1] http://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/SAK-16899

Branden Visser wrote:
> Ahh, I see. This affects our support abilities to some degree.. is there 
> any objection (or support) to merging a patch for 
> org.sakaiproject.util.SiteEmailNotification that refines this recipient 
> list to explicit site members? I'm testing one locally right now.
> 
> Thanks,
> Branden
> 
> Stephen Marquard wrote:
>> I think the destination list is constructed from a permissions check, which means it would pull in users with permissions from realms such as !site.helper in addition to the site realm.
>>
>> Regards
>> Stephen 
>>  
>>>>> Branden Visser <branden at uwindsor.ca> 8/20/2009 3:30 PM >>> 
>> Hi all,
>>
>> We currently add our support staff to the !site.helper realm with custom 
>> roles (roles that don't exist in course sites) in order to grant them 
>> ability to visit sites for support purposes. This is ideal for many 
>> reasons, particularly because this way they do not appear on the rosters 
>> for the sites, and the support user's Sakai experience is not slowed 
>> down because of such a large site membership.
>>
>> One gotcha with this is that they still seem to receive emails from 
>> tools like Announcements and Resources, and so their email inboxes fill 
>> up very fast. Shouldn't these tools only be sending emails to people who 
>> are on the site roster (i.e., show up under Site Editor)?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Branden
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