Can I send task mails from designer

Today with Axon.ivy 6.1 and older it's not possible to send task mails from the designer. The main blockers are:

• the mail servlet (ch.ivyteam.ivy.webserver.internal.IvyMailServlet) which generates the content of the task mail is not bound at designer time.
• tasks mails require the system application 'System' and its process model 'IvyCommons'. But at design time only one application 'Designer' is available

Other difficulties which can be fixed/configured:

• the task mail sender job does not respect the designer mail preferences. therefore the system wide mail properties of the engine have to be modified e.g. in a utitlity process
• the project that provides the task notification mail content process must be registered with an utitily process api call
• the designer app does not send any task mails by default. however with a JsfWorkflowUi or similar a test user can override his mail settings and enable task mails for any new task.
• the designer test user must have a mail address configured

sample utility code to enable mail sending in the designer:

package mailGenerator;

import ch.ivyteam.di.restricted.DiCore;
import ch.ivyteam.ivy.application.IApplication;
import ch.ivyteam.ivy.application.IApplicationConfigurationManager;
import ch.ivyteam.ivy.environment.Ivy;
import ch.ivyteam.ivy.security.IEMailNotificationSettings;
import ch.ivyteam.ivy.system.IProperty;
import ch.ivyteam.ivy.workflow.StandardProcessType;

/**
 * Enable task mails in the designer to be generated with the JsfWorkflowUi
 */
public class DesignerMailUtitily {

    public static void configure()
    {
        configureEngineMailProperties();
        enableDesignerApplicationMails();
        useMailProcessFromJsfWorkflowUi();
    }

    private static void useMailProcessFromJsfWorkflowUi() {
        Ivy.wf().setStandardProcessImplementationLibrary(
                StandardProcessType.MailNotificationNewTask, "JsfWorkflowUi");
    }

    private static void enableDesignerApplicationMails() {
        IApplication designerApp = Ivy.wf().getApplication();
        IEMailNotificationSettings mailSettings = designerApp.getDefaultEMailNotifcationSettings();
        mailSettings.setNotificationDisabled(false);
        mailSettings.setSendOnNewWorkTasks(true);
        designerApp.setDefaultEMailNotifcationSettings(mailSettings);
    }

    /**
     * configure the minimal engine properties so that i can work with 'smtp4dev' or similar
     */
    private static void configureEngineMailProperties() {
        IApplicationConfigurationManager appManager = DiCore.getGlobalInjector()
                .getInstance(IApplicationConfigurationManager.class);
        IProperty host = appManager.getSystemProperty("EMail.Server.Host");
        host.setValue("localhost");
    }
}