[imp] Locking the ability to change the From header in outbound mail.

[Robin Polak]

On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 11:56, Andrew Morgan <morgan at orst.edu> wrote:

> On Fri, 19 Sep 2008, Robin Polak wrote:
>
>  If am having trouble locating a setting to successfully lock the ability
>> to
>> change the From field in outgoing mail.  I would really appreciate any
>> guidance those viewing this list may offer.
>>
>
> In horde/config/prefs.php:
>
> // user preferred email address for From: line
> // If you lock this preference, you must specify a value or a hook for it
> in
> // horde/config/hooks.php.
> $_prefs['from_addr'] = array(
>    'value' => '',
>    'locked' => true,
>    'hook' => true,
>    'shared' => true,
>    'type' => 'text',
>    'desc' =>  _("Your From: address:")
> );
>
>
> Then use a "_prefs_hook_from_addr" in horde/config/hooks.php to set the
> From address.  Users will still be able to set their Fullname, but not the
> email address.
>
>        Andy
>

Thank You, I was able to successfully disable the From field by setting the
from_addr pref as you quoted above and configuring a hook for it in the
hooks.php config file to resolve from LDAP.

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