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Specify an administrator e-mail address for Blogs notifications

Edit configuration property settings to change the administrator e-mail address for notifications. This is the address used to send system notifications, such as notifications sent to users who have posted inappropriate content.

To edit configuration files, use wsadmin. See Start the wsadmin client for details.

By default, automatic notifications are sent from a generic e-mail address, such as blogs-admin@your-email-domain.com. If Connections is configured so that e-mail addresses are not displayed, you can set a global sender e-mail address for all notification templates, as described in the topic Defining a valid global sender e-mail address. If e-mail addresses are displayed, the global sender is ignored. In either case, you should add a specific administrator e-mail address that has access rights to send mail for several notification templates that are used in the workflows for managing content that is flagged as inappropriate. Some of the messages sent automatically instruct the recipient that they can respond to the administrative user e-mail address from which the notification was sent. If you do not edit the default e-mail address, the recipient gets a delivery failure notification when they try to respond to the automatic e-mail.

To specify an administrator e-mail address for managing flagged content...

1. Use wsadmin to access and check out the Lotus Connections configuration files.

   1. Access the Lotus Connections configuration file:

      • Stand-alone deployment: execfile("connectionsConfig.py")

      • Network deployment: execfile("WAS_HOME/profiles/Dmgr01/config/bin_lc_admin/connectionsConfig.py")If you are prompted to specify which server to connect to, type 1.

        This information is not used by wsadmin when you are making configuration changes.

   2. Check out the Lotus Connections configuration files...

      LCConfigService.checkOutConfig("<working_directory>","cell_name") where:

      • <working_directory> is the temporary working directory to which the configuration XML and XSD files are copied and are stored while you make changes to them. Use forward slashes to separate directories in the file path, even if you are using the Microsoft Windows operating system.

      • cell_name is the name of the WebSphere Application Server cell hosting the Lotus Connections feature. This argument is required even in stand-alone deployments. This argument is also case-sensitive, so type it with care. If you do not know the cell name, do one of the following to determine it:

        • Stand-alone deployment: From the file system...

          WAS_HOME\profiles\profile_name\config\cells\
          

      • Network deployment: From wsadmin...

        print AdminControl.getCell()
        

      For example:

      • AIX/Linux:

        LCConfigService.checkOutConfig("/opt/temp","foo01Cell01")
        

   3. Microsoft Windows:

      LCConfigService.checkOutConfig("c:/temp","foo01Cell01")
      

2. Check out the notification-config.xml file... LCConfigService.checkOutNotificationConfig("<temp_dir>","cell_name") where <temp_dir> is a temporary directory and cell_name is the WebSphere Application Server cell where you installed Blogs.

3. From the temporary to which you checked out the notification-config.xml file, open it in a text editor.

4. Search for the <source name="Blogs" string to find the section that defines the notification settings for the Blogs feature.

5. To configure an administrative e-mail address for handling flagged content in a blog, add or change the value of the sender attribute to a legitimate e-mail address in the <type> elements that have the following name attribute values:

   • confirmflagged

   • notifyflagged

   • notifyquarantined

   • notifyedit

   For example:

   <type name="notifyflagged"> 
   <channel enabled="true" name="email"> 
   <property name="sender">blogs-admin@your-email-domain.com</property> 
   <property name="url">{notification.source.url}/notifyflagged.jsp</property> 
   </channel> 
   </type>
   

6. Save and close the notification-config.xml file.

7. Check in the configuration files... LCConfigService.checkInNotificationConfig("<temp_dir>", "<cell-name>")

8. Restart the Blogs server for the changes to take effect.

Administer Blogs using the wsadmin Client

 

Related tasks

Configure the flag as inappropriate feature

Define valid administrator e-mail addresses

Moderating Blog comments

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