Privatemsg notification sender

Important note

You do not need this module (anymore) if you are using one of these privatemsg releases:

• 7.x-2.x-dev (snapshots of 2013-01-11 or later). Please check the release notes on how to convert and migrate your existing settings.
• 6.x-2.x-dev (snapshots of 2013-01-12 or later). Please check the release notes on how to convert and migrate your existing settings.

About

The privatemsg module optionally notifies users per email once they have received a private message. Unfortunately, the sender of these notifications (the email's from header) always points to the site admin's email address (6.x-1.x branch) or to a dedicated but still global from address (7.x-1.x branch). This may lead to the effect, that the recipients of privatemsg notification mails blindly reply to the site owner instead of the originator (or a dedicated "dead mailbox").

This plugin module remedies that by allowing to set either the pm originator or a dedicated (e.g. "noreply") address as the notification mail's sender.

Features

• The site admin can set a global generic from address (only applying to privatemsg 6.x-1.x).
• The site admin can also set a global default whether or not to preferably use the originator's mail address as the sender's mail address.
• Users can enable/disable (and thus override) the global default in their profile settings.

Requirements

• Privatemsg module (6.x-1.x or 7.x-1.x branches only) must be installed.
• Pm_email_notify sub-module must be enabled.

Roadmap

Further additions are rather unlikely as the module has a very clear and simple purpose.

Privatemsg will include this feature in the long run. It is already implemented in the 6.x-2.x and 7.x-2.x branches.

Quick reference

• Make sure the privatemsg module is installed and notifications are enabled.
• Install this module.
• Configure the additional settings at the privatemsg email notify tab.
• Note the Show my email address checkbox in the user profile's privatemsg settings.