what does fred-admin --object_regular_procedure do ? does it send all emails in a queue ? and empty the queue ? petur ________________________________________ Fra: fred-users-bounces(a)lists.nic.cz [fred-users-bounces(a)lists.nic.cz] På vegne af Jaromír Talíř [jaromir.talir(a)nic.cz] Sendt: 2. februar 2009 14:37 Til: fred-users(a)lists.nic.cz Emne: Re: sending emails to customers Petur Kirke píše v Po 26. 01. 2009 v 14:33 +0000: Sending emails to contacts is done in multiple situations. All these situations are described in this document: http://dsdng.nic.cz/attachment/wiki/attachments/communication_rules.pdf?for… Chapter 7: Central registry communication Emails are based on template systems and all email templates are stored in database in mail_templates table. These templates contain variables that are replaces with real content before sending. You can customize these email templates the way you like. Sending of emails take place during regular daily procedure accessible through command line tool fred-admin. You should put into crontab this call with daily period: fred-admin --object_regular_procedure Regards, Jaromir This email and its attachments may be confidential and are intended solely for the use of the individual to whom it is addressed. If you are not the intended recipient or authorized to receive information for the intended recipient you are notified that disclosing, copying, distributing or taking any action in reliance on the contents of this information is strictly prohibited. If the email contains proposals, they are valid for 30 days following the date of email transmission. Finally, the recipient should check this email and any attachment for the presence of viruses. The company accepts no liability for any damage caused by any virus transmitted by email.

I have 2 more questions: 1) When i create one contact with fred-client (create_contact), i need to specify 2 different email addresses. One is named "email", and the other is name "notification email". When an update is made to one domain, lets say the customer is changing the address information for one domain. In this case, will the email notification be sent to the "notification email" ? And the "email" is just for information ? Can you explain this brief ? 2) Which email software can be used with Fred ? Sendmail ? And i need to setup one email software, before all the mail functions in Fred is working, right ? Petur ________________________________________ Fra: fred-users-bounces(a)lists.nic.cz [fred-users-bounces(a)lists.nic.cz] På vegne af Jaromír Talíř [jaromir.talir(a)nic.cz] Sendt: 13. februar 2009 14:28 Til: fred-users(a)lists.nic.cz Emne: Re: SV: sending emails to customers This procedure is imporant part of Fred processes. It automates lot of things. According to fred-admin --help it's just shortcut for list of other things: --object_regular_procedure shortcut for 2x update_object_states, notify_state changes, poll_create_statechanges , object_delete_candidates, poll_create_low_credit, notify_letters_create --update_object_states - This command update state of objects - it compares actual time, expiration dates on domains, last usage dates on contact and nssets and mark those object with flags like (expired, ouzone, deleteCandidate...). It's called twice to catch race condition - if somebody should renew domain during this procedure. It's state is reverted back in second run. Domains with 'outzone' state are not generation into zone dile --notify_state_changes - Go through objects and find states that should be followed by client notification. For those object/state combinations send email to object owner. For example registrants are this way notified about approaching expiration, about getting outzone, about deleting of object...etc --poll_create_statechanges - Similar to previous but this way registrars are informed using 'poll messages' mechanism. New message is created in system and registrars can download this message using poll EPP command. --object_delete_candidates - All objects marked by state deleteCandidate are deleted. Domains get this state 45 days after expiration date. Contact and NSSets get this state after six months of not using them. --poll_create_low_credit - Special check for credit of registrars. If credit of registrar fall under some configured limit. New poll message is created for this registrar with information that credit is low. --notify_letters_create - Few weeks before deleteing of domain we send regular paper letter to registrant with information that his domain is really going to be deleted. This procedure generates PDF document with those letters. Our staff download this PDF file using web administration interface, print it on printer, put it into envelopes and send it. We call this procedure each day at 2pm from cron script. Regards Jaromir Petur Kirke píše v St 11. 02. 2009 v 15:40 +0000: This email and its attachments may be confidential and are intended solely for the use of the individual to whom it is addressed. If you are not the intended recipient or authorized to receive information for the intended recipient you are notified that disclosing, copying, distributing or taking any action in reliance on the contents of this information is strictly prohibited. If the email contains proposals, they are valid for 30 days following the date of email transmission. Finally, the recipient should check this email and any attachment for the presence of viruses. The company accepts no liability for any damage caused by any virus transmitted by email.