Update author submission email to clarify unmonitored inbox and support channels #1462
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…r submission emails Co-authored-by: arfon <4483+arfon@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: arfon <4483+arfon@users.noreply.github.com>
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[WIP] Author submission email should have more information for authors
Update author submission email to clarify unmonitored inbox and support channels
Oct 2, 2025
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This is scary |
The edits, or the fact that Copilot made the changes? |
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The latter. I also wonder if just changing the email is sufficient or if there are other things that also should be changed. |
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Summary
This PR updates the author submission email templates to provide clearer guidance to authors about how to get support for their submissions, addressing the issue that authors were replying to the unmonitored
admin@theoj.orginbox.Changes Made
The author submission email now includes:
admin@theoj.orgis unmonitored and authors should not reply to this emailUpdated Email Content
The new warning message reads:
Files Modified
app/views/notifications/author_submission_email.html.erb- Added bold warning text with proper HTML formattingapp/views/notifications/author_submission_email.text.erb- Added corresponding plain text warningspec/mailers/notifications_spec.rb- Added test coverage to verify the warning message is presentPreview
The screenshot shows both the HTML and text versions of the updated email, with the warning message clearly visible.
Testing
Added automated test to ensure the warning message is present in the email body:
admin@theoj.orgbeing unmonitoredFixes the issue where authors were attempting to get support by replying to the unmonitored submission confirmation email.
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