How to modify From dropdown list on compose email screen

[sgandhi]

Hi All,
People have asked questions on how to modify Email compose screen's from dropdown list to not show Personal info as the first entry but as a last entry. Here is what you need to do.

In Emails/EmailUI.php, there is a function called getFromAccountsArray. Check th eif block in that code. It sets ieAccountsFrom variable with the users personal info. Push that if block after foreach loop so that the system entry will go at the end of from dropdown list. So here is the new code.

     function getFromAccountsArray(&$ie) {
        global $current_user;
        global $app_strings;
 
        $ieAccountsFull = $ie->retrieveAllByGroupIdWithGroupAccounts($current_user->id);
        $ieAccountsFrom= array();
 
        $oe = new OutboundEmail();
        $system = $oe->getSystemMailerSettings();
        $ret = $current_user->getPreferredEmail();
 
        foreach($ieAccountsFull as $k => $v) {
            $name = $v->get_stored_options('from_name');
            $addr = $v->get_stored_options('from_addr');
            if ($name != null && $addr != null) {
                $name = from_html($name);
                $ieAccountsFrom[] = array("value" => $v->id, "text" => "{$name} ({$addr})");
            }
        }
 
        if(!empty($system->id)) {
            require_once('modules/Administration/Administration.php');
            $admin = new Administration();
            $admin->retrieveSettings(); //retrieve all admin settings.
            $ieAccountsFrom[] = array("value" => $system->id, "text" =>
                "{$ret['name']} ({$ret['email']})");
        }
        return $ieAccountsFrom;
    } 
  

-Samir

[lrm242]

Thanks Samir, that worked perfectly. Is there any side effect to simply commenting out the 'if' block rather than moving it? It has the effect of not showing the system email address at all, which is actually what I want to do. Will it break anything else if I do this?

Thanks,

Louis