Redmine

Marius BALTEANU wrote:

You can set in_reply: <address> in email_delivery settings from configuration.yml (source:trunk/config/configuration.yml.example#L15). It's not enough?

Is that actually possible in all cases? I just tried setting from:, reply_to:, in_reply:, and sender: for a delivery method of :sendmail and got "mapping values are not allowed in this context". So while it may be allowed for a delivery method of :smtp, it doesn't appear to be allowed for a delivery method of :sendmail.

However, even if it were, that raises the question -- why does redmine provide a way to set the sender in the outgoing email settings, when (if it worked in all cases) presumably that could also be set in configuration.yml?

Gary Aitken wrote:

Is that actually possible in all cases? I just tried setting from:, reply_to:, in_reply:, and sender: for a delivery method of :sendmail and got "mapping values are not allowed in this context". So while it may be allowed for a delivery method of :smtp, it doesn't appear to be allowed for a delivery method of :sendmail.

Can you show me how your configuration looks (please anonymise your data)? For example, the following works for me:

  email_delivery:
    delivery_method: :smtp
    smtp_settings:
      address: "maildev" 
      port: 25
      enable_starttls_auto: false
    default_options:
      reply_to: noreply@example.com

According to Rails configuration, default_options is not a setting related only to smtp delivery method.

However, even if it were, that raises the question -- why does redmine provide a way to set the sender in the outgoing email settings, when (if it worked in all cases) presumably that could also be set in configuration.yml?

The setting has 14 years old and unfortunately, I cannot say why was made configurable in the Administration.

Normally, configuration.yml looks like this:

default:
  email_delivery:
    delivery_method: :sendmail

and that's it.
There is no additional smtp configuration.

If I modify it to look like this:

default:
  email_delivery:
    delivery_method: :sendmail
    smtp_settings:
      reply_to: user@domain.com

and send a test mail, there is no reply-to field in the message which is sent.

In this installation, the mail is sent via the postfix (not sendmail) /usr/sbin/sendmail command, which delivers to the local postfix installation, which relays over smtp through a gmail relay using their extra level of authentication. I don't know much about how the postfix sendmail command works, except that you can run it from the command line. In order to get a reply-to header, you have to add it in the output yourself, like so:

$ sendmail user@domain.com
Subject: Test from mydomain.com using "sendmail" 
Reply-to: foo@mydomain.com
some text
.

This is incorrect:

default:
  email_delivery:
    delivery_method: :sendmail
    smtp_settings:
      reply_to: user@domain.com

reply_to is not an attribute of smtp_settings, it is of default_options.

Please try with the following:

default:
  email_delivery:
    delivery_method: :sendmail
    default_options:
      reply_to: user@domain.com

That worked fine.
My appologies for taking up your time.