Send an email.... possible to draw the recipient from a node field?

thanks kratib, again! so install VBO and Token, and Token will add a new action to VBO's list that allows me to do this?

interesting.... it does seem to do basically what I'm looking for... however, the action itself doesn't let you configure the sender. It uses www-data and the default domain of the SMTP server. I can modify exim's default domain OK, but it still sends as www-data... problem with that is, most receiving email servers check the domain and if it is the same domain as the receiving domain (ie an "internal" email) they will often reject the email as part of their anti spam filtering....

does anyone know if there is a way of setting a "masquarade" sender within the Send Tokenised email action?

cheers!

kratib

The Site Conf -> Site info is definitely set, but it isn't using that. It was using www-data@red.example. The www-data presumably because it is the user running the web site, and red.example is the default domain given in the exim config file. I updated the exim default domain to something else and it uses that, but still uses the www-data user.

The sendmail_from attribute in /etc/php5/apache2/php.ini says Win32 only. For Unix it has sendmail_path but it isn't clear how you can specify the From: in this option, it just seems to be used to point at the binary. It isn't set so I'm assuming it is finding it in the path variable.

The emails that are getting through (hotmail.com doesn't seem to care about the sender stuff!) are actually being received as From: www-data@blah.com On Behalf Of where the is the address set for the Site Information...

Wondering if anybody can help on this one.... the action to send a tokenised email is great, but seems to be missing a couple of things. I can't set a From:/Reply To: and it doesn't seem to use the site default email address... so I get www-data@red.example (which of course gets bounced by most receiving systems). I can change the red.example in the exim conf file, but not the user name.

The other critical feature I need is attachments... is there any way to fudge this so that I can send a message body and one attachment? (like actually pasting the MIME code for the attachment at the bottom of the message body?!)

OK, update, I realised that Exim doesn't have www-data as a "trusted_user" and therefore cannot use a sendmail -f
to change the sender address. Once I added it to the .conf file and restarted exim it now allows the correct site information address to come through.

I'm still having issues with some mail servers rejecting my emails, presumably based on spam grounds... not sure whether they are reacting to the sending IP address, sender domain or something else...

That's interesting... hmm, I've played with Rules. I have a cck stage field which can be set to Send Application Form. I built a rule that triggers on field change AND that field being set to Send App Form. Then use the Send email to arbitrary address rule, and populate cck field rule to move the stage to Application Form Sent and send an email.

That's a good work around for not being easily able to add a button to the node to trigger this manually. Thing is, even with Token, there still doesn't seem to be a way of sending an email with an attachment... any ideas there? What would happen if I embedded MIME at the bottom of the email "body"?

kratib - thanks for the info! But well beyond my capabilities, sorry! You're right, a new action would be fantastic.