restrict sending EMails to one single to address

After question in chat how this behaves with multi to addresses I tested it and found another issue: In my first implementation I did not expect that iDempiere sets a ReplyTo header of its own. In this case my patch did nothing. But this case seems more common in normal report windows (e.g. via the print button).

The new patch resolves this. It joins the old ReplyTo address and all To addresses (that are not used because of the MAIL_DONT_SEND_TO_ADDRESS system configuration) to a new ReplyTo list. I tested that this works also with many To addresses.

Please could you review my patch that adds the ReplyTo header?

This issue was fixed (from Carlos and me) without further notice and documentation to the outside world. I want to add some documentation links here:

• https://bitbucket.org/idempiere/idempiere/commits/738b6d7f841b359e91cc4ea6aeef26a4fac64c14 - naturally this code contains - like every good code - the best documentation

• http://wiki.idempiere.org/en/System_Configurator_(Window_ID-50006) actual list with the System Configuration items

• I wrote a german documentation about this feature at http://wiki.idempiere.org/de/EMail_einrichten

I tested the functionality and it works well. But there is still an issue imho.

Short: I want to create a ReplyTo header with the original To address.

This functionality can be used in two usecases: 1) debugging and 2) an admin wants to check all mails before they are send automatically (like a gatekeeper).

In both cases it is important to see the original TO address. With the first patch this address is hidden in an "OriginalTo"-Header and can be seen by looking into the message sourcecode. For case 1) (and a low amount of debugging data) this may be suitable but for the case 2) this is quite annoying.

My idea is to set the ReplyTo Header of the mail. At least this is a nice information in the header line that is shown directly by most mail programs. It is easier to copy & past this address to use it as a forward address. And for case 2) it is possible e.g. in Thunderbird to press "Ctrl-E" to "edit this message as new" and just send it (this does not include attachments atm due to another bug).

I understand that the exact meaning of "ReplyTo" does not exactly fit of our case. But as this is a feature mostly used by developers and debuggers I think this is at least a more convenient way to show the recipient than the hidden Header.

Very interesting !
Actually, when restoring a database I execute a sql to remove those external email addresses

Perhaps add an option to send emails to a single domain (eg: @tgi.fr, @bayen.de, ...) and not restrict to a single adress only

Regards,

Nicolas