# 09-Sep-2026 — send event notifications from a configurable email type, from the role address, as a [#349](https://github.com/nbarrett/ngx-ramblers/issues/349)

## [build 884](https://github.com/nbarrett/ngx-ramblers/actions/runs/34289364365) — [commit 3eb1faa](https://github.com/nbarrett/ngx-ramblers/commit/3eb1faad40e4b129b5172afbea8cd2041015d419)

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## What's new

Send Notification on a social event or walk used to open the composer on whichever email type happened to be first in the list, with the sender's own contact address as Send from and one-by-one transactional copies to the selected members. For a site whose committee role addresses are the only verified senders, that meant a social event notification could go out under a member's personal address, rewritten by the mail provider, to every member individually rather than as one campaign.

Each event type now has its own "Send Notification Uses Email Configuration" setting under System Settings → Group, alongside the other per-event-type settings. Send Notification opens the composer on that email type, from its committee role address, to its default mailing list as a single campaign. Existing sites are wired up automatically: the migration picks the site's existing Social Events email type for group events and its Newsletter for walks, so nothing changes for anyone until they choose otherwise. The built-in Walk Change Notification is a workflow type and is deliberately not offered.

Sending is also reachable from the event itself now, not only from the edit form. A social event's Publish menu gains "Email members about this event" for social admins, next to Share on social media. A walk's Share menu gains "Email members about this walk" (a campaign on the walk's email type) and "Email the walk leader" (a plain, unbranded email to the leader) for committee members and walk admins; walk leaders on their own do not see either.

The composer also gains a "Show the subject as a heading at the top of the email" switch under the subject line. For a single walk or event the event card already carries the title, so the heading just repeated it; it starts off when the composer is opened from a walk or event and on for everything else; either way the subject stays in the inbox subject line and the switch only controls the heading in the body. Campaigns now render through the same editable body as the preview, so what you see in the preview is what goes out.

## At a glance

- System Settings → Group → each event type has a "Send Notification Uses Email Configuration" dropdown listing the site's email types (the same list the composer offers, so workflow types such as Walk Change Notification are not on it), with None to fall back to the composer's usual default
- Send Notification on a social event or walk opens that email type
- Recipients start on a whole mailing list (the email type's default list, sent as one campaign), not specific members sent one by one
- Send from starts on that email type's committee role address, not the sender's own contact email
- Select All As Me sets Send from to the role address as well as sign-off
- "Send to committee role addresses" starts ticked whenever everyone on the send holds a committee role, whether they came from a committee list or were picked by name; a mixed audience still uses personal addresses, and unticking is respected
- Compose → Subject → "Show the subject as a heading at the top of the email" (off by default when opened from a walk or event, on otherwise; off removes the body heading only, the inbox subject line is unchanged)
- Campaign sends use the same editable body as the preview, so the heading switch and the preview both match what is sent
- A migration sets the group event setting from each site's existing Social Events email type and the walk setting from its Newsletter
- Social event page → Publish → "Email members about this event" (social admins)
- Walk page → Share → "Email members about this walk" and "Email the walk leader" (committee and walk admins); the composer under /walks now admits walk admins as well as committee