Feature Incorporated: multiple group email sent from addresses

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Feature Incorporated: multiple group email sent from addresses

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HI is it possible, or more likely did I miss the ability to send group emails from different admins of our team's page.

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Feature Already Exists: multiple group email sent from addresses

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Skip,

The email send function defaults to using the person designated as the Skipper in the Crew Manager Modify Settings screen. This may be changed if you have an additional admin who would like to send an email using their address. The person who has Skipper Admin rights may log in and change the Skipper as follows:
  1. Log in with Skipper Admin Rights
  2. On menu mouse over Skipper then click on WordPress Admin
  3. When WordPress Admin screen opens, on left menu mouse over Crew Manager and click on Modify Settings
  4. Select the desired person using the dropdown labeled Designate the Skipper
  5. Scroll to the bottom and click the blue Save All Changes button
That person is now designated as the Skipper and all emails originated from the site (automatic reminders, posts sent, results sent, etc. and manual Skipper generated emails) will appear to be from their email address. If this change is only temporary for sending a manual email, the original Skipper should be reselected and saved using the steps above. It is possible that the person who was removed from the Skipper may temporarily loose their Skipper Admin access, and another person with those rights would have to make the selection of Skipper.
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Re: Feature Already Exists: multiple group email sent from addresses

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Further to the request by Skip Mattos from The Cat Came Back (TCCB), an additional enhancement is proposed. This would provide a selectable return address for Skipper Send Email. TCCB has multiple people as Crew Administrators who all send emails to the crew. In order to prevent confusion, it would be better if a dropdown was available to select which Crew Administrator would have the return email (from address) for any messages sent.

A concept for this includes a dropdown next to "From" that defaults to the name and email for the Crew Administrator logged in. Only those having "Crew Administrator" rights for the boat website would be listed on the dropdown. Additionally those with full "Administrator" rights would be included in the list, but not visible/selectable by those with only "Crew Administrator" rights.

Upon selecting a name other than the person logged in, the signature portion of the draft message would be automatically updated to include the name of the person, formatted as a "mailto:" link. The return address used by the email send program will be that of the person selected in the dropdown.

The software for this enhancement is currently under test and should be released shortly.
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Feature Incorporated: multiple group email sent from addresses

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The Skipper Send Email page was updated at noon on 11 November 2019 to include a dropdown selector next to the From: field label. The Skipper or Crew Administrator may select who the message is from using a dropdown that contains only Crew Administrators or Website Administrators.

Next to From: select the desired person to be listed as the sender. This will use the displayed name and email address to send the message. The screen will refresh momentarily when the dropdown is changed. The signature block is updated with the selected name and email address. Note: Do this step first as any changes made on other fields including the text area will be lost when the screen is refreshed.

The picture below shows the dropdown displayed next to the From: field label.
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