batguebi01: Make event emails sent from 10.6 iCal Server come from actual user

Thursday, 31 March 2011

Make event emails sent from 10.6 iCal Server come from actual user

In Server Admin, the iCal settings allow you to specify a single email from which event invitations will come. For a personal calendar though, you really want the email to come from your own email.

The script which sends invitations is found at:

/usr/share/caldavd/lib/python/twistedcaldav/mail.py

It appears that it tries to find the appropriate email address, but I could not figure out how to make a value ever be present where it was looking.

So, I modified the script as shown below. Change:

  if organizer.startswith("mailto:"):   orgEmail = fromAddr = organizer[7:]  else:   fromAddr = serverAddress   orgEmail = None  cn = calendar.getOrganizerProperty().params().get('CN', (None,))[0]

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