jmail is an internal mailing tool for Moodle 2
It supports features like: labels(folders), attachments, reply, forward, print, read and unread messages, etc...
- Send messages (TO, CC, BCC)
- Reply, forward
- Attachments in messages
- User names auto-completition when composing messages
- Bulk user selection
- Save attachments directly to your Moodle private files
- Drafts support
- Moodle HTML Editor integrated
- AJAX and Rich User Interface
- Quick search tool
- Ordering (date, subject, remitent)
- Pagination
- Labels (like folder, but a message can be linked to more than one label)
- Different types of mailboxes
- Receive copy of your messages to your profile external email account
- Direct access to all your mailboxes
- Groups support
- Message key shortcouts (reply, forward, delete and print)
- Global inbox
- Full backup and restore support
The default mailbox in a course. All the users cand send messages to others
Selected roles can only read messages (not reply or compose new messages)
Setup:
- Override permissions at block or course level for your targeted roles
- Set block/jmail:sendtomanagers to prevent
- Set block/jmail:sendtoall to prevent
Moderators must approve messages sent by users
Moderators are the users with the permission block/jmail:approvemessages allowed
Setup: Edit the block course settings, Check approval mode
- Override permissions at block or course level for your targeted roles
- Set block/jmail:approvemessages to allow for the users you want to be able to approve messages
Selected roles will be able to send messages only to managers (managers are also selected roles)
Managers are those with the permission block/jmail:sendtoall allowed
Setup:
- Override permissions at block or course level for your targeted roles
- Managers (teachers)
- Set block/jmail:sendtomanagers to allow
- Set block/jmail:sendtoall to allow
- Students
- Set block/jmail:sendtomanagers to allow
- Set block/jmail:sendtoall to prevent
The block supports groups for filtering users but additionally in the block settings you can select a profile field of the user for creating groups fitered.
So if you select "Country" and user from Spain will be available to view and send messages only users from Spain
Same for institutions, department, and language
Users will be able to send messages to any user in the system Users will be able to see all their different courses messages in the same page When a user replies to or forward a message, it will be delivery to the original remitent's course mailbox When a user composes a new message, it will be delivery to the system global inbox
Setup:
- Go to Admin -> Plugins -> Blocks
- jm 84AB ail General Settings
- Check enable global inbox
You can add a html link to the mailbox indicating an user id for automatically open a New message window with the To field filled with the user indicated
http://yourmoodle.com/blocks/jmail/mailbox.php?id=X&to=Y
X - Course where the mailbox is Y - User id you want to send a message
Follow Installing_plugins instructions
Quick installation: Unzip the zip file into blocks/jmail, the directory should look like:
- blocks/jmail
- db/
- lang/
- block_jmail..
- ...
- version.php
In your course Inbox you have to go to Settings and Enable "Receive a copy of the messages ..." option
Review your SPAM directory You have specify in your Moodle profile settings that you email is not visible (that prevents Moodle to send any email to you, including jmail ones)
- If you are using custom roles, this roles should be marked as "profileroles" roles in Moodle settings, Site Policies, profileroles option
- or Refresh the page
- or log-out and log-in again to refresh cachees
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