[TYPO3-core] FYI Added feature #17033: [reports] Notification Emails for system status updates

[Ingo Renner]

Hi all,

The attached patch has been committed to trunk in r10098

Type: Feature

Bugtracker reference: http://bugs.typo3.org/view.php?id=17033

Branch: trunk

Problem:
Some time back I added a scheduler task to run a system status check on 
a regular basis. Although its description said something about 
notification emails, those were not present yet.

Solution:
The attached patch adds the missing notification functionality to the 
scheduler task.

Notes:
There's a method (the last one in the patch) getFromAddress() that tries 
to determine a From address to use for the notification emails. The 
reason for having that instead of another field to provide that address 
was that I wanted it to be as easy as possible to set this task up by 
simply providing a recipient email address.

While discussing that with some people at last friday's Bug Day we found 
that this might not be the best option in all cases. Jeff had previously 
come up with an RFC to introduce a default From address for an 
installation. The RFC had enough +1 but then was left behind because of 
worries about too many options polluting the install tool.

I would like to come up with that idea again and support the 
introduction of a default From address because it's needed in a lot of 
places already. Currently AFAIK the Swift mailer adapter uses 
no-reply at example.org which doesn't feel right to me.

When having a setting in the install tool I would propose a method to 
retrieve a From address with a fall back chain like this:

* Address set in Install Tool
* no-reply@ First domain record of the top most root page
* php_uname('n')

What do you think?


all the best
Ingo

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