Email Notification

[heinzzer]

Just bought “Easy Flash Uploader – Version 1.4: Joomla 1.6 & 1.7 Edition” and I’ve a question about the email notification feature.

If someone uploads 50 image files, I get 50 emails (“A guest (Guest) has successfully uploaded…”). I wouldn’t mind so many emails, but I think the email address or mail server will get blacklisted.

Is there any workaround, rather than limiting the files someone can queue + forcing the users to upload zip files?

Perhaps just one email notification “A guest has queued x files for upload”… ?

Best regards,

[Michael Gilkes]

@heinzzer. thanks for posting. You make some valid points here. But, I would like to discuss this with you.

First of all, this type of feature (queueing the notification) would be better served with a component than a plugin. And even then, I am not sure it there is a way to set it up like a cron job. It would probably be better set as a threshold email summary.

Second, everyone who is not logged in to the site is a guest. So, it really isn’t wise to let guests upload files to your site. So, once you let guests upload files, you are going to have numerous email notifications. You should only make the article that hosts the uploader be available to registered users, as a point of practice.

Thirdly, in terms of being blacklisted, you would normally be blacklisted if your email address is triggered as a spam address. This would mean that your address is constantly sending email to many other email addresses. However, if you are getting emails from one particular email address, your Joomla admin address, it doesn’t mean that you will get blacklisted. There are other factors that make you blacklisted.

Hope this helps. Let me know what you think.

[heinzzer]

Thanks for your answer.

I’ve tried to find a very simple to use upload solution with a progress bar. Your plug-in is perfect and handles a 200 files queue just fine. My upload page is for users who have no idea what a ZIP file is, but they should be able to upload photos with as little worries or computer knowledge as possible. The site in question isn’t public, so I’m not worried about uploads from people I don’t know.

I understand it’s not easy to create a “email summary” or anything like that. Well, I’ve came up with following solution. a.) deactivated email notification b.) added a form with a “My Name” text field and a “I’ve uploaded something” submit button. Hope that’s easy enough. 😉

[Michael Gilkes]

@ heinzzer. You can turn off the email notification in the Plugins Manager, actually. You will see it as “Send an Email Notification?”. Just set it to “No”. Or, in the article, you can specify:

<br /> {easyflashuploader notify='0'}<br />

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<br /> {easyflashuploader notify='0'}<br />

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