Mail Notifications Howto
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| Valid for: | CMFLinkChecker 1.9 |
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| Author: | Christian Theune <ct@gocept.com> |
| CVS: | $Id: HOWTO-MailNotifications.txt,v 1.4 2005/04/11 11:01:57 zagy Exp $ |
What are mail notifications
Mail notifications allow you to keep your authors informed about possible broken links in the site by sending them regularly email, listing all broken links.
Mail notification modes
Standard
The users receive an overview of the links in the selected states they wished to be informed about.
E.g. all their links in "red" state.
Update
Only show differences to the last notification (e.g. which links went out of "red" and which links went into "red" since last time.)
Triggering mail notifications
Due to virtual hosting problems it is necessary to trigger the mail notifications from outside the Zope-Server using a normal special user account. You can do that e.g. with wget in conjunction with cron:
wget -S -O - http://<username>:<password>@<official.name>/<plone_site>/portal_linkchecker/reports/MailNotifications
The user needs the 'Linkchecker: Run mail notifications' permission. You must not trigger the mail notifications more than once an hour; otherwise your users would get multiple reports per hour.
Plone Options
Every user of your plone site can configure the times they wish to be informed, the contents and the mode of their notifications. The email adress presented in their portal profile will be used for the mail.
HTML-Mail
The linkchecker sends out a HTML mail including CSS to highlight things. Currently the CSS is known to work with Microsoft Outlook and Mozilla Mail. The CSS is known not to work with Ximian Evolution.
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