RT- Email Colleague

[ntorres]

Hello
Our OJS page works withs reading tools, one of them is to send an email recommendation.
We want that everybody who is visiting our web can make a recommendation of an article using the Email Colleague Reading Tool. Now you need to be a registered user to use this link. How can I open this link to not registered users?

Thanks

[asmecher]

Hi ntorres,

We opted not to allow unregistered visitors to use OJS's email facilities because of the high potential for abuse (i.e. using the mail form as an open relay). I'd suggest using a "mailto" link when dealing with unregistered visitors; if you construct a link along the lines of:

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<a href="mailto:?subject=This+Is+The+Article+Subject&body=This+Is+The+Recommendation+Message+And+Link">Recommend To A Colleague</a>

you should be able to accomplish this with the user's own email client. Construct a link like this in templates/rt/rt.tpl. I can provide more information if you wish.

Regards,
Alec Smecher
Open Journal Systems Team

[ntorres]

Thanks Alec

I visited webs from the Sample of Journals Using PKP's Open Journal Systems page and some of them allow send a recommendation to colleague to unregistered users, so we decide do it.

If we decide use mailto we can use a new page with a form like email.tpl sended by mailto?

ntorres

[asmecher]

Hi ntorres,

No, a mailto link will pop up a new email window in Thunderbird or Outlook or something else, depending on what's configured as the default mail client. This is the recommended solution, as it depends on the unauthenticated user's email tools.

To enable a template-based mail window, you'll have to change a few things:

• templates/rt/rt.tpl: Disable the $isUserLoggedIn check around the link to emailColleague
• Disable the logged in check (whether the user object evaluates to true) in pages/rt/RTHandler.inc.php, in the emailColleague function

Be aware that this essentially leaves OJS open as a mail relay!

Regards,
Alec Smecher
Open Journal Systems Team