#4548 RFE: zodbot could actually e-mail meeting minutes
Closed: Fixed None Opened 9 years ago by mattdm.

= problem =

Right now, at the end of every meeting, zodbot reminds you to mail the meeting minutes, and to cc them to the meetingminutes list.

= analysis =

This has a number of problems:

  1. It's easy to forget
  2. People aren't always subscribed to the meetingminutes lists, causing bounces and administrative annoyance
  3. It's error prone
    a. the wrong content can be sent
    b. to the wrong address
  4. People are inconsistent in subject lines, making search hard later
  5. It's kind of annoying for a bot to tell you to do something it could do its own @#^\ self. Lazy bot!

Plus, we could even make it so only zodbot can post to the meetingminutes list (by both making it the only allowed poster and possibly introducing other checks to discard mail with the right address but wrong sender hosts or etc).

= enhancement recommendation =

Make zodbot get to work!


Great enhancement. Perhaps we could even introduce a new keyword that could be used to set other mail addresses (i.e. other mailing lists) for zodbot to send meeting minutes to. That way with just a little forethought we could prevent having to remember emailing after the fact at all.

That sounds like a invitation to spammers. :)

But perhaps it could be locked down somehow.

Replying to [comment:2 kevin]:

That sounds like a invitation to spammers. :)

But perhaps it could be locked down somehow.

Depending on how much work someone wants to do, it could require registered nick, look up fas id, and only post to lists you are subscribed to as your fas account. Or something.

This is now done. It just mails them all to meetingminutes. ;)

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