Mail Notification

1 Description

In version ILIAS 4.0 it is possible to activate "Mail Notification" for receiving a daily mail about new mails in my personal ILIAS inbox. The current implementation has two issues that need to be solved to make it a usable feature:

1. Mail message: The content of the message is poor and does not contain sufficient information about the installation and the received mails (see screenshot).
2. Administration: The acitivation of the feature in the administration is well hided from the administrator...

Suggestion:

1. The mail message has to have additional information and need to follow the recommendation for automatically generated mails as defined in System Notifications by E-Mail. Therefore the structure would be as following:
   • Salutation ("Hello {First name} {Last name}")
   • Message ("You have 3 new mails in the inbox of your account {login}"; For each mail I would like to have also information about the "Sender")
   • Task ("If you want to read these mails, please go to the Mail Inbox of ILIAS: {Permanent link of user's mail inbox; see Go to Mail Inbox})
   • Explanation ("You received this mail because you have activated «Send Mail Notification» in your personal mail settings.")
   • Additional information (This mail has been sent automatically by the ILIAS installation {client name}, URL: {client URL}...)
   • Signature
2. Activating the feature should also be possible in Administration > Mail. That is where users expect this feature.

2 Status

• Scheduled for Release: Not scheduled yet
• Funding: Required
• Development: Feature is to be developed by Databay AG AG

3 Additional Information

• If you want to know more about this feature, its implementation or funding, please contact: Matthias Kunkel

4 Discussion

JF 8 Feb 2010: We highly appreciate this improvement.

5 Follow-up