[kronolith] Calendar event alarm reminders via e-mail

[Aria Bamdad]

> >> <snip>
> >> And, then sets $to-email to $alarm['params']['mail']['email'] if it's
> >> not empty or else, sets it to $from-email.
> >>
> >> Then in the next section below, use from-email and to-email instead
> of
> >> $email for both?
> >>
> >>
> >>         try {
> >>             $mail = new Horde_Mime_Mail(array(
> >>                 'Subject' => $alarm['title'],
> >>                 'To' => $email,
> >>                 'From' => $email,
> >>                 'Auto-Submitted' => 'auto-generated',
> >>                 'X-Horde-Alarm' => $alarm['title']));
> >>             if (isset($alarm['params']['mail']['mimepart'])) {
> >>                 $mail-
> >> >setBasePart($alarm['params']['mail']['mimepart']);
> >>             } elseif (empty($alarm['params']['mail']['body'])) {
> >>                 $mail->setBody($alarm['text']);
> >>             } else {
> >>                 $mail->setBody($alarm['params']['mail']['body']);
> >>             }
> >>
> >> This may be a naive solution as I am not a PHP programmer!
> >>
> 
> Sorry, I thought I had already answered this, but I must have
> forgotten...
> 
> What you describe should work. Just be aware that this handler is used
> by more than Kronolith so this change will affect all email sent via
> Horde_Alarm.
> 
> >
> > Can anyone provide some feedback on whether the above is possible.
> > In fact, I was thinking that the calendar event reminders don't even
> > have to be sent from an address that belongs to the user's identity
> > at all.  All calendar event e-mail notifications from the system
> > could come from a generic (non-existent) email address like
> > do_not_reply at example.com .   So until there is a horde based
> > solution for this, can I just hardcode the generic address in the
> > From field abov: like 'From' => 'do_not_reply at example.com',
> >
> > Thanks.


Thank you Michael.  I realize that the Horde_Alarm is used by other modules, but in my environment, I have already manually disabled other notifications (calendar invites/cancellation) because these are handled by the client (outlook) used.  I had put in an enhancement request to allow the user to disable the notification system via a configuration option https://bugs.horde.org/ticket/14772 .  

I also created an enhancement request to allow for configuration of the event alarms as you suggested earlier:  https://bugs.horde.org/ticket/14983  I think this is even more important because of the fact that other systems tag these messages as spam or suspicious. 

Thanks for your help. 

Aria