Mail

General plugins (Local) ::: local_mail
Maintained by Albert Gasset, Marc Català
Webmail-like messaging
Latest release:
3153 sites
1k downloads
82 fans
Current versions available: 7

This plugin allows users to send messages to each other, using an interface and features similar to web-based mail clients.

Messages are tied to courses, so users can only send messages to other participants in courses they are enrolled in.

Users can access all mail features through the envelope icon present in the header of the site, or the main menu of the Moodle app.


Version 2.0 of the project implemented by the "Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan". Funded by the European Union - Next Generation EU. Produced by the UNIMOODLE University Group: Universities of Valladolid, Complutense de Madrid, UPV/EHU, León, Salamanca, Illes Balears, València, Rey Juan Carlos, La Laguna, Zaragoza, Málaga, Córdoba, Extremadura, Vigo, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria and Burgos.

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Contributors

Albert Gasset (Lead maintainer)
Manuel Cagigas Lago
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  • Annie H.
    Sat, 17 Feb 2024, 7:16 PM
    Hi, just a short question. In installed your plugin on 3 moodle sites, 2 of them has been upgraded to 4.3.3 and the plugin is visible (letter icon) and usable. The 3rd moodle is a completely new one. I installed here as well your plugin but there´s no letter icon, no option to use the plugin. Under plugin I see that it is installed, in the DB is also everything fine. So why I can´t get access? Do I need further settings? Thank you a lot in advanced. Cheers
  • Marc Català
    Sun, 18 Feb 2024, 2:44 AM
    Hi Annie,

    You need to be enrolled in at least one course to use Mail.

    Cheers
  • Friedhelm
    Tue, 20 Feb 2024, 9:41 PM
    Hello!

    Thanks for the feedback. The teachers are enrolled in the courses. I tested this myself with a course. You have released a new version. I'll try it with that.

    Best regards
  • Noa Randriamalaka
    Wed, 21 Feb 2024, 12:13 AM
    Hello

    We have been using the local_mail plugin for a long time but since the last update, when the course setting is "separate groups", it is impossible to select users when sending an email.

    Thank you for your feedback
  • Piotr F
    Mon, 4 Mar 2024, 5:14 AM
    Hi,

    Great idea, thanks for your work.

    Two remarks, v. 2.4 on Ubuntu 22.04.4:

    1.
    web notifications turned on,
    once the email is received, after refreshing site,
    two notifications appear: one on the bell (regular site notification), one on the envelope (Mail plugin).
    Too much, I think, a user has to click five times to fully remove it.
    I believe, the envelope would be enough.

    2.
    there are no push notifications, no pop ups or anything.
    In order to see the new message one needs to refresh the website.
    It would be absolutely great if there would be some push thing or a pop up.

    All the best,
    Piotr
  • Friedhelm
    Thu, 7 Mar 2024, 5:24 PM
    Hello!

    We have installed version 2024021200 on our Moodle 4.1.8. Unfortunately, the problems could not be solved with the new version. Some users do not see participants in the selection list even though they are enrolled in the course. Furthermore, emails cannot be sent to groups. I think that used to work.

    Best regards
    Friedhelm
  • Cristina Martín
    Thu, 14 Mar 2024, 6:34 PM
    Good morning, first of all, thank you for the development of this plugin that is being of great help to us for communications in the educational communities of our centers. Special thanks for the latest update of the plugin that allows it to be used from the app, something that we greatly missed.

    We have installed this new update of the plugin on a Moodle 4.1.6 and in the tests we have seen that the app does not open the window to select a file to attach to the email.

    Best regards
  • L T
    Fri, 15 Mar 2024, 5:01 PM
    Hi, the following error occurs for us when trying to upgrade to the latest version in our environments from version 2024020300 to 2024031400.

    error:
    You can't specify target table 'mdl_local_mail_message_refs' for update in FROM clause
    DELETE FROM mdl_local_mail_message_refs
    WHERE id IN (
    SELECT r.id
    FROM mdl_local_mail_message_refs r
    JOIN mdl_local_mail_messages m1 ON m1.id = r.messageid
    JOIN mdl_local_mail_messages m2 ON m2.id = r.reference
    WHERE m1.courseid != m2.courseid
    )
    [array (
    )]
    Error code: dmlwriteexception
  • Dr. Nellie Deutsch
    Fri, 15 Mar 2024, 6:08 PM
    The upgrade to Moodle 4.3 gives an error message so I'm unable to upgrade. Can you check on your end? Thank you.
  • Annie H.
    Sun, 17 Mar 2024, 12:05 AM
    Hi, unfortunately there´s an errot while upgrading the plugin:
    Debug-Info: You can't specify target table 'o1ei_local_mail_message_refs' for update in FROM clause
    DELETE FROM o1ei_local_mail_message_refs
    WHERE id IN (
    SELECT r.id
    FROM o1ei_local_mail_message_refs r
    JOIN o1ei_local_mail_messages m1 ON m1.id = r.messageid
    JOIN o1ei_local_mail_messages m2 ON m2.id = r.reference
    WHERE m1.courseid != m2.courseid
    )
    [array (
    )]
    Error code: dmlwriteexception

    Please check! How can it be solved?
    Thank you!
  • L T
    Mon, 18 Mar 2024, 4:28 AM
    Can confirm it is now working in our environments (MySQL) when upgrading to 2.8.
    Thanks for fixing it quickly.
  • David Mudrák
    Tue, 19 Mar 2024, 3:00 AM

    I am happy to report this plugin just received the "Mobile app support" award. Well done!

  • Peter Oliver Greza
    Tue, 19 Mar 2024, 8:19 PM
    Hey, thanks for this great plugin! Is there a possibility to add a free variable parameter? So that I can just type "Dear #User" and it is automatically replaced by the user name I write to? Would be useful for mails to many students.
  • Евгений Мамаев
    Tue, 26 Mar 2024, 8:36 PM
    Is there a way to limit number of messages students can send? It would be great to have a limit of messages per hour or per day
  • Евгений Мамаев
    Wed, 27 Mar 2024, 2:02 PM
    New feature proposal: create scheduled task to delete old messages (older than specified number of days). Admin can configure plugin to delete old messages with all attachments
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