180890 - Allow customization of alarm email notification message

Status: NEW

(Calendar :: Alarms, enhancement)

Description

[Jason Airlie]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.3a) Gecko/20021111
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.3a) Gecko/20021111

Allow the user to customize the email sent on an alarm. I am currently sending
the alarms to my mobile phone. While the current message is short, the text area
of my phone is even smaller. Much of the information in the alarm email, while
good as a default, is uninformative. 

I'd like the ability to edit the message to remove unecessary text and possibly
add more from the calendar events details.

The current message should probably be left as the default.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
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Comment 1

[Morten Kristoffer Hansen]

A standard SMS can contain 150 characters. The ability to change the body of the
email would be great, either as an userpref or through the GUI.

Maybe it could be done similar to the email signature files, where the user
could point to a file with a template. This template could use some codes,
indicating which fields from the event to use and where they should be placed:
<example>
Calendar alarm!
%t at %l at %b
Remember %n
</example>
where %t is title, %l is location, %b is starttime and %n is notes.

Comment 2

[Mike Potter]

New contact from [e-mail] to [e-mail]
Filter on string OttawaMBA to get rid of these messages. 
Sorry for the spam.

Comment 3

[Michiel van Leeuwen (email: mvl+moz@)]

*** Bug 259278 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 4

[Allan]

I would like to suggest that this is more than just an enhancement.  When I use
the email alarms i have to give detailed titles so those receiving it (including
me) know what it is about.  There needs to be a way to customize this or it is
pretty worthless as a corporate tool.

I have searched bugzilla and have not found any further details or fixes or
improvements on this and i have been watching for a while to see if this can be
fixed.  I have been watching this project for 3+ years to replace Outlook for
one of my present client companies and even longer for personal use.

Comment 5

[Jonathan Hardy]

This functionality would be great to have for the Calendar Plugin for
Thunderbird as well as for Sunbird.  I like the idea of being able to email my
alarms autonatically, but I wish I could just get more onfo on there.  As of
right now, I have to cram a LOT of info into the title in order to have any type
of descriptive  email.
I have done extensive searches on MozillaZine forums, bugzilla, and googled it
as well, so far no solutions.  But if I am to convert my entire business over to
T-bird from Outlook, this feature is one of the many that will be key for
convincing my bosses of why it is such a great move.  They like having these
types  of options.

Thanks for all of the hard work you guys have put into this so far, it works great.

Comment 6

[Matthew (lilmatt) Willis]

Reassigning all automatically assigned bugs from Mostafa to nobody@m.o

Bugspam filter: TorontoMostafaMove

Comment 7

[R. Wizard]

For my purposes, also specifying the address to which such an alarm would be mailed is essential. There should be a list just like the attendees selectable from the address book etc.

Comment 8

[jsherk]

If you read these other enhancements, you will see that although they are not duplicates, they are very similar:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=282565
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=360799

The implementation of them all would probably fall within the same code.

Also, if you read this old enhancement:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=337906
somebody actually came up with the code changes necessary back in 2006 to implement 'running a script on an alarm'. At the time, it was not going to be implemented into Lightning, but with these other similar requests maybe it's time to open it back up and have another look.

So everybody go vote for these other enhancements, and also, let's try to get all the votes considered together to get the feature implemented.

Thanks

Comment 9

[Philipp Preißer-Kewisch [:Fallen][☁️📆]]

Running a script on an alarm should be quite easy to implement in an extension. Let me know if you need help doing so. I don't think this should be core code due to security considerations. Even in an extension you should be very careful with procedural alarms.