Changing from/reply-to

It would be very helpful if message_subscribe allowed designating a sender other than the site's main email address. This is particularly true with OG, where you might want the reply-to address to be the group, or a "postmaster" who handles all group email.

A patch was posted recently for for message_notify that accomplishes this 🐛 The 'from' parameter is not configurable Closed: outdated . But I'm not sure how to fully implement it in message_subscribe_og.

Another way I think this module, which is very useful, can be improved would be by allowing the site to select which group content types will trigger messages. I have several group content types, but only 2 that I want to spawn messages. There is currently no way to tell message_subscribe not to send messages for the others.

That brings me to an issue I hope you will consider. The message stack is intended to be very flexible and extensible. But one behavior of message_subscribe fails to live up to that goal, the automatic sending of new content upon creation. The patch I published a few days ago to check whether the content/comment is posted partially fixes the problem. But a better solution would be to make message_subscribe passive, requiring a trigger or rule to invoke it under all circumstances. Rules to accomplish this are pretty straightforward and I'd be happy to post an example.

For now, the only workaround is to make sure that all content is saved unpublished, preventing message_subscribe from triggering. Then, I can use rules to control what content spawns messages. But this is awkward and no guarantee that we can prevent messages from being sent.

Thanks