On 2025-06-24 14:00, Lukas Wagner wrote: > The notification settings in the 'General' tab were unfortunately a > source of regular confusion for many people. This was primarily due to > the behavior of the 'notification mode'. The notification mode can > one of the following: > - notification-system: Emit a notification event to the global > notification system, where it can be matched on by notification > matchers and then sent to one or more targets. > - legacy-sendmail: Old-style notifications, where one can directly > enter some email address. The system uses 'sendmail' to > send the notification to the specified address, circumventing > the regular notification stack. > - auto: Use legacy-sendmail if an email is entered and the > notification system if not > > The 'auto' mode was originally intended to ease migration between the > old and the new system. From a user's perspective however, 'auto' is > quite surprising and unintuitive. The UI preselected 'auto' as a > default, which would, as explained above, favor the new notification > stack with the 'mailto' field empty. However, the UI would still invite > the user to enter their email address, which would then entail the > 'legacy-sendmail' mode. Some users were led to believe that this email > address would then be used for a configured email target of the new > notification stack. As a consequence, 'auto' is now completely hidden in > the UI. > > In the new 'Notifications' tab one can now choose between > ( ) Use global notification settings > (x) Use sendmail to send an email > Recipients: [ ] > When: [Always/On Error] > > 'Recipients' and 'When' are disabled if the first radio box is selected. > > The new tab can later also be used to house other controls. For example, > we could display all matchers that could potentially match this backup > job, or maybe even allow to create a new matcher with a pre-populated > match-field rule. > > The term 'Notification System' is altogether from the UI. It is not > necessarily clear to a user that this refers to the settings in > Datacenter > Notifications. > > Signed-off-by: Lukas Wagner <l.wag...@proxmox.com> > Tested-by: Michael Köppl <m.koe...@proxmox.com> > Reviewed-by: Michael Köppl <m.koe...@proxmox.com>
ping - still applies on latest master -- - Lukas _______________________________________________ pve-devel mailing list pve-devel@lists.proxmox.com https://lists.proxmox.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pve-devel
