[mail] token: How to manage it by default

Hi Rosamunda, I take it that this is related to the first issue you sent: #406296: User views attached to node (viewfield): Send current node by email?. If it is indeed, please copy and paste the body of this issue over there and close this one. Thanks!

That's a different issue alright :-) I'll check this one too.

The problem is that the "token_actions_send_email_action" action is designed to be generic, so it requires the user to enter the recipient's email address.

The easiest way to solve your issue is to copy the code for that action into your own module, and to do the following modifications:
* Remove the $form['recipient'] element from token_actions_send_email_action_form().
* In token_actions_send_email_action(), instead of getting the recipient as it's currently done:

<?php
$recipient = token_replace_multiple($context['recipient'], $context);
?>

do the following instead:

<?php
$recipient = $object->mail;
?>

Of course you'll need to change the action name. Hope that helps!

Marking as fixed if you don't mind.

I am a little confused about how this works. Rosamunda, if you created a unique module to do this, would you mind attaching it so I can see and example? Specifically, I want to send an email (does not need to be tokenized) to users selected in a list, FROM the logged-in user, NOT the site_admin email.

Edit: I have successfully made a special module which sends emails to whomever is checked in the VBO list. however, no matter what I do to the code, the mail is sent from the site email account, not the account of the user who initiated the email. I have tried any number of things. The relevant code appears to be this:

This sets the "from":
$params['from'] = variable_get('site_mail', ini_get('sendmail_from'));
I have tried to replace it with these, none work, but all send from site_mail:
$params['from'] = variable_get('user_mail', ini_get('sendmail_from'));
$params['from'] = variable_get('mail', ini_get('sendmail_from'));
And, creating extra places in the form for someone to manually enter an address:
$params['from'] = variable_get('from', ini_get('sendmail_from'));

Any help?
Thanks, Maria

giorez: Grazie Molto!!!

It works perfectly!!!!!! I particularly like that the entire recipient box is removed as this was an odd step for my site users. It removes the need to tell them to put "%author" in the field, which is just gibberish to most people.

I had already made a special module, so I incorporated your changes into the module, though I didn't keep all your changes (kept the longer message text, some descriptions). I have attached the file here.

Again, molti ringraziamenti!

oops...attachment.

I am trying the hack in #11 and getting an error message: "Unable to send e-mail. Please contact the site administrator if the problem persists."
I need to be able to send the email to all the selected users from the logged on user and not the system email address

Trying to use the hack in the codes above to get the user email creates a no send error for the emails. Why would this stop working id it worked before?

global $user;

//$params['from'] = variable_get('site_mail', ini_get('sendmail_from')); 
  $from = $user->mail;
// $recipient = token_replace_multiple($context['recipient'], $context);
$recipient = $object->mail; 

The last comment is old and talks about non-official code.
Feel free to open a new bug report if you have a reproducible problem with 6.x-1.x-dev.

Same issue with 7.x, how can I resolve this?
No more "token_actions_send_email_action"

You can use Views Send, or the email action inside a rules component.