Send email with share link: no interface anymore?

vmakarenko · December 17, 2018, 2:49pm

There was a nice feature in the Web GUI interface by sharing of files and directories:
it was possible to send via email a generated share link with some comment.
We did not found the feature since 6.3.6 pro (linux).
Was it done on purpose? or we forgot to set some parameter?

Thank you already!

marcusm · December 17, 2018, 4:51pm

This feature has been removed in 6.3.x

popindavibe · December 22, 2018, 9:32pm

I haven’t seen it in the changelogs ( https://manual.seafile.com/changelog/server-changelog.html ).
Can we know the reason to remove this feature? Is it permanent?

F360mf1 · December 23, 2018, 2:09am

Strange. I’m using 6.3.7 and this feature is there–I just tested it to be sure.

marcusm · December 23, 2018, 12:34pm

I‘m sure i was reading this in one version announcement in the forum.

marcusm · December 23, 2018, 12:35pm

Are you sure? Did you clear the browser Cache?

F360mf1 · December 24, 2018, 7:07am

Well, I entered some random text in the email box and I received an email message with that text. Pretty certain it was sent by our Seafile Pro server.

Are we talking about the same thing???

From the web interface…

Click on the SHARE icon for a file.
Click GENERATE to create a link to the file.
Click the SEND button. I’m prompted with a place to enter the email address (sendto) and a message to send.
Enter an email address and a message.
Click SUBMIT button to send the email.

marcusm · December 24, 2018, 9:55pm

Yeah, but there is no such button on 6.3.7 Pro, see:

F360mf1 · December 25, 2018, 12:25am

Hmmmm. I have a SEND button that seems to be missing in your screen shot. I wonder if there is some SMTP server setting that missing on your end?

29%20PM

I’m also using 6.3.7 pro. I’m installed on ubuntu 16.04 if that helps.

Jon

ziyaul121 · December 25, 2018, 4:02am

Have you configured e-mail parameter ?? Please check and verify with the below manual link. If you have configured the email service then only it will be appeared otherwise by default send will be not visible.
https://manual.seafile.com/config/sending_email.html

marcusm · December 25, 2018, 2:20pm

@ziyaul121 @F360mf1

Of course we have configured mail settings, it worked with 6.2.x and we did not change anything regarding mails.

F360mf1 · December 25, 2018, 3:50pm

I have to say that we had a lot of problems going from 6.2 to 6.3. Once we got 6.3.7 working, I’m a little nervous to update to newer releases. @marcusm, it sounds like you are having trouble as well. Wish I could be of more help. Best of luck.

Cisco · December 25, 2018, 7:44pm

@marcusm
go to the site of seafile demo you will see that the link to send an email exists me I use version 6. 3. 9 and the link does not work either I am in the same case as you and I would like to understand why it does not work

Cisco · December 25, 2018, 8:23pm

@marcusm
the link to generate a sharing email works when I disable these settings in seahub_settings.py I have not yet looked at what was bug, but it comes from here
seafile server pro 6.3.9 debian9

version

marcusm · December 26, 2018, 6:10pm

Thanks @Cisco and @F360mf1! Yes we use this feature, this could be the reason. @daniel.pan please have a look!

vmakarenko · January 4, 2019, 10:13am

Thank you, this is the correct solution, the permission can_send_share_link_mail should be set to True for the corresponding USER role.