Add the user name of the author of a ticket change to the 'Sender' field

[niels.reedijk@…]

We are trying to improve the usefulness of Trac's notification e-mails, by adding the user name to the 'Sender' field. This makes it easier to trac who made the changes in your e-mail app.

The patch works as follows: it adds a paramater to NotifyEmail's send method. The caller (in this case TicketNotify) can specify an author. Ticket notify looks up the author of a change, or the reporter in case of a new bug, and passes this on. The smtp_from_name parameter acts as an override, if it is set, the author parameter is ignored.

I doubt this patch conforms to your coding standards: it is meant as a quick hack to our local installation, nevertheless, it might be a solution for other users.

[niels.reedijk@…]

Quick and dirty patch

[grant@…]

Hi - i'm really interested in getting this patch to work, but i can't seem to merge this into my notifications.py's, are you on 0.11 version??

[anonymous]

Yes, it was made against revision 6361 (beta 1). I'm pretty sure it should apply cleanly. Perhaps you can apply it manually.

[Emmanuel Blot]

See also #6789

[Christian Boos]

Milestone 2.0 deleted

[Thijs Triemstra]

Also see #8360 that has a patch that grabs the name from the settings panel. #6789 is about using the email address of the ticket's owner in the reply-to header.

[Remy Blank]

#8360 has a patch implementing this functionality, so I'm closing this as a duplicate.