Index: typo3/sysext/reports/reports/status/class.tx_reports_reports_status_status.php
===================================================================
--- typo3/sysext/reports/reports/status/class.tx_reports_reports_status_status.php	(revision 10097)
+++ typo3/sysext/reports/reports/status/class.tx_reports_reports_status_status.php	(working copy)
@@ -99,6 +99,29 @@
 	public function getSeverity() {
 		return $this->severity;
 	}
+
+	/**
+	 * Creates a string representation of a status.
+	 *
+	 * @return	string	String representation of this status.
+	 */
+	public function __toString() {
+		$severity = array(
+			self::NOTICE  => 'NOTE',
+			self::INFO    => 'INFO',
+			self::OK      => 'OK',
+			self::WARNING => 'WARN',
+			self::ERROR   => 'ERR',
+		);
+
+			// max length 80 characters
+		$stringRepresentation =
+			str_pad('[' . $severity[$this->severity] . ']', 7) .
+			str_pad($this->title, 40) . ' - ' .
+			substr($this->value, 0, 30);
+
+		return $stringRepresentation;
+	}
 }
 
 
Index: typo3/sysext/reports/reports/locallang.xml
===================================================================
--- typo3/sysext/reports/reports/locallang.xml	(revision 10097)
+++ typo3/sysext/reports/reports/locallang.xml	(working copy)
@@ -52,6 +52,11 @@
 			<label index="status_configuration_DeprecationLogSize">Your deprecation log file currently takes up %s.</label>
 			<label index="status_updateTaskTitle">System Status Update</label>
 			<label index="status_updateTaskDescription">Runs a system status check and sends notifications if problems have been found.</label>
+			<label index="status_updateTaskField_notificationEmail">Notification Email Address</label>
+			<label index="status_updateTaskField_notificationEmail_invlaid">Empty or invalid notification email address.</label>
+			<label index="status_updateTask_email_subject">System Status Notification for site %s</label>
+			<label index="status_updateTask_email_site">Site</label>
+			<label index="status_updateTask_email_issues">Issues</label>
 		</languageKey>
 	</data>
 </T3locallang>
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Index: typo3/sysext/reports/ext_autoload.php
===================================================================
--- typo3/sysext/reports/ext_autoload.php	(revision 10097)
+++ typo3/sysext/reports/ext_autoload.php	(working copy)
@@ -16,5 +16,6 @@
 	'tx_reports_reports_status_configurationstatus' => $extensionPath . 'reports/status/class.tx_reports_reports_status_configurationstatus.php',
 	'tx_reports_reports_status_status' => $extensionPath . 'reports/status/class.tx_reports_reports_status_status.php',
 	'tx_reports_tasks_systemstatusupdatetask' => $extensionPath . 'tasks/class.tx_reports_tasks_systemstatusupdatetask.php',
+	'tx_reports_tasks_systemstatusupdatetasknotificationemailfield' => $extensionPath . 'tasks/class.tx_reports_tasks_systemstatusupdatetasknotificationemailfield.php',
 );
 ?>
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Index: typo3/sysext/reports/ext_localconf.php
===================================================================
--- typo3/sysext/reports/ext_localconf.php	(revision 10097)
+++ typo3/sysext/reports/ext_localconf.php	(working copy)
@@ -6,9 +6,10 @@
 }
 
 $GLOBALS['TYPO3_CONF_VARS']['SC_OPTIONS']['scheduler']['tasks']['tx_reports_tasks_SystemStatusUpdateTask'] = array(
-	'extension'   => $_EXTKEY,
-	'title'       => 'LLL:EXT:' . $_EXTKEY . '/reports/locallang.xml:status_updateTaskTitle',
-	'description' => 'LLL:EXT:' . $_EXTKEY . '/reports/locallang.xml:status_updateTaskDescription'
+	'extension'        => $_EXTKEY,
+	'title'            => 'LLL:EXT:' . $_EXTKEY . '/reports/locallang.xml:status_updateTaskTitle',
+	'description'      => 'LLL:EXT:' . $_EXTKEY . '/reports/locallang.xml:status_updateTaskDescription',
+	'additionalFields' => 'tx_reports_tasks_SystemStatusUpdateTaskNotificationEmailField'
 );
 
 $TYPO3_CONF_VARS['SC_OPTIONS']['t3lib/class.t3lib_befunc.php']['displayWarningMessages']['tx_reports_WarningMessagePostProcessor'] = 'EXT:reports/reports/status/class.tx_reports_reports_status_warningmessagepostprocessor.php:tx_reports_reports_status_WarningMessagePostProcessor';
Index: typo3/sysext/reports/tasks/class.tx_reports_tasks_systemstatusupdatetasknotificationemailfield.php
===================================================================
--- typo3/sysext/reports/tasks/class.tx_reports_tasks_systemstatusupdatetasknotificationemailfield.php	(revision 0)
+++ typo3/sysext/reports/tasks/class.tx_reports_tasks_systemstatusupdatetasknotificationemailfield.php	(revision 0)
@@ -0,0 +1,147 @@
+<?php
+/***************************************************************
+*  Copyright notice
+*
+*  (c) 2010 Ingo Renner <ingo@typo3.org>
+*  All rights reserved
+*
+*  This script is part of the TYPO3 project. The TYPO3 project is
+*  free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+*  it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+*  the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
+*  (at your option) any later version.
+*
+*  The GNU General Public License can be found at
+*  http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html.
+*
+*  This script is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+*  but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+*  MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+*  GNU General Public License for more details.
+*
+*  This copyright notice MUST APPEAR in all copies of the script!
+***************************************************************/
+
+
+/**
+ * Additional field to set the notification email address(es) for system health
+ * issue notifications.
+ *
+ * @author	Ingo Renner <ingo@typo3.org>
+ * @package	TYPO3
+ * @subpackage	reports
+ */
+class tx_reports_tasks_SystemStatusUpdateTaskNotificationEmailField implements tx_scheduler_AdditionalFieldProvider {
+
+
+	/**
+	 * Additional fields
+	 *
+	 * @var	array
+	 */
+	protected $fields = array('notificationEmail');
+
+	/**
+	 * Field prefix.
+	 *
+	 * @var	string
+	 */
+	protected $fieldPrefix = 'SystemStatusUpdate';
+
+	/**
+	 * Gets additional fields to render in the form to add/edit a task
+	 *
+	 * @param	array	$taskInfo Values of the fields from the add/edit task form
+	 * @param	tx_scheduler_Task	$task The task object being eddited. Null when adding a task!
+	 * @param	tx_scheduler_Module	$schedulerModule Reference to the scheduler backend module
+	 * @return	array	A two dimensional array, array('Identifier' => array('fieldId' => array('code' => '', 'label' => '', 'cshKey' => '', 'cshLabel' => ''))
+	 */
+	public function getAdditionalFields(array &$taskInfo, $task, tx_scheduler_Module $schedulerModule) {
+		$fields = array('notificationEmail');
+
+		if ($schedulerModule->CMD == 'edit') {
+			$taskInfo[$this->fieldPrefix . 'NotificationEmail'] = $task->getNotificationEmail();
+		}
+
+		$additionalFields = array();
+		foreach ($fields as $field) {
+			$fieldName = $this->getFullFieldName($field);
+			$fieldId   = 'task_' . $fieldName;
+			$fieldHtml = '<input type="text" '
+				. 'name="tx_scheduler[' . $fieldName . ']" '
+				. 'id="' . $fieldId . '" '
+				. 'value="' . $taskInfo[$fieldName] . '" />';
+
+			$additionalFields[$fieldId] = array(
+				'code'     => $fieldHtml,
+				'label'    => 'LLL:EXT:reports/reports/locallang.xml:status_updateTaskField_' . $field,
+				'cshKey'   => '',
+				'cshLabel' => $fieldId
+			);
+		}
+
+		return $additionalFields;
+	}
+
+	/**
+	 * Validates the additional fields' values
+	 *
+	 * @param	array	$submittedData An array containing the data submitted by the add/edit task form
+	 * @param	tx_scheduler_Module	$schedulerModule Reference to the scheduler backend module
+	 * @return	boolean	True if validation was ok (or selected class is not relevant), false otherwise
+	 */
+	public function validateAdditionalFields(array &$submittedData, tx_scheduler_Module $schedulerModule) {
+		$validInput = TRUE;
+		$submittedData[$this->fieldPrefix . 'NotificationEmail'] = trim($submittedData[$this->fieldPrefix . 'NotificationEmail']);
+
+		if (
+			empty($submittedData[$this->fieldPrefix . 'NotificationEmail'])
+			|| !filter_var($submittedData[$this->fieldPrefix . 'NotificationEmail'], FILTER_VALIDATE_EMAIL)
+		) {
+			$schedulerModule->addMessage(
+				$GLOBALS['LANG']->sL('LLL:EXT:reports/reports/locallang.xml:status_updateTaskField_notificationEmail_invalid'),
+				t3lib_FlashMessage::ERROR
+			);
+			$validInput = FALSE;
+		}
+
+		return $validInput;
+	}
+
+	/**
+	 * Takes care of saving the additional fields' values in the task's object
+	 *
+	 * @param	array	$submittedData An array containing the data submitted by the add/edit task form
+	 * @param	tx_scheduler_Task	$task Reference to the scheduler backend module
+	 * @return	void
+	 */
+	public function saveAdditionalFields(array $submittedData, tx_scheduler_Task $task) {
+
+		if (!($task instanceof tx_reports_tasks_SystemStatusUpdateTask)) {
+			throw new InvalidArgumentException(
+				'Expected a task of type tx_reports_tasks_SystemStatusUpdateTask, but got ' . get_class($task),
+				1295012802
+			);
+		}
+
+		$task->setNotificationEmail($submittedData[$this->fieldPrefix . 'NotificationEmail']);
+	}
+
+	/**
+	 * Constructs the full field name which can be used in HTML markup.
+	 *
+	 * @param	string	$fieldName A raw field name
+	 * @return	string Field name ready to use in HTML markup
+	 */
+	protected function getFullFieldName($fieldName) {
+		return $this->fieldPrefix . ucfirst($fieldName);
+	}
+
+}
+
+
+if (defined('TYPO3_MODE') && isset($GLOBALS['TYPO3_CONF_VARS'][TYPO3_MODE]['XCLASS']['ext/reports/tasks/class.tx_reports_tasks_systemstatusupdatetasknotificationemailfield.php'])) {
+	include_once($GLOBALS['TYPO3_CONF_VARS'][TYPO3_MODE]['XCLASS']['ext/reports/tasks/class.tx_reports_tasks_systemstatusupdatetasknotificationemailfield.php']);
+}
+
+?>
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Index: typo3/sysext/reports/tasks/class.tx_reports_tasks_systemstatusupdatetask.php
===================================================================
--- typo3/sysext/reports/tasks/class.tx_reports_tasks_systemstatusupdatetask.php	(revision 10097)
+++ typo3/sysext/reports/tasks/class.tx_reports_tasks_systemstatusupdatetask.php	(working copy)
@@ -33,6 +33,14 @@
 class tx_reports_tasks_SystemStatusUpdateTask extends tx_scheduler_Task {
 
 	/**
+	 * Email address to send email notification to in case we find problems with
+	 * the system.
+	 *
+	 * @var	string
+	 */
+	protected $notificationEmail = NULL;
+
+	/**
 	 * Executes the System Status Update task, determing the highest severity of
 	 * status reports and saving that to the registry to be displayed at login
 	 * if necessary.
@@ -48,8 +56,109 @@
 
 		$registry->set('tx_reports', 'status.highestSeverity', $highestSeverity);
 
+		if ($highestSeverity > tx_reports_reports_status_Status::OK) {
+			$this->sendNotificationEmail($systemStatus);
+		}
+
 		return true;
 	}
+
+	/**
+	 * Gets the notification email address.
+	 *
+	 * @return	string	Notification email address.
+	 */
+	public function getNotificationEmail() {
+		return $this->notificationEmail;
+	}
+
+	/**
+	 * Sets the notification email address.
+	 *
+	 * @param	string	$notificationEmail Notification email address.
+	 */
+	public function setNotificationEmail($notificationEmail) {
+		$this->notificationEmail = $notificationEmail;
+	}
+
+	/**
+	 * Sends a notification email, reporting system issues.
+	 *
+	 * @param	array	$systemStatus Array of statuses
+	 */
+	protected function sendNotificationEmail(array $systemStatus) {
+		$systemIssues = array();
+
+		foreach ($systemStatus as $statusProvider) {
+			foreach ($statusProvider as $status) {
+				if ($status->getSeverity() > tx_reports_reports_status_Status::OK) {
+					$systemIssues[] = (string) $status;
+				}
+			}
+		}
+
+		$fromEmail = $this->getFromAddress();
+
+		$subject = sprintf(
+			$GLOBALS['LANG']->getLL('status_updateTask_email_subject'),
+			$GLOBALS['TYPO3_CONF_VARS']['SYS']['sitename']
+		);
+
+		$message = sprintf(
+			$GLOBALS['LANG']->getLL('status_problemNotification'),
+			'',
+			''
+		);
+		$message .= CRLF . CRLF;
+		$message .= $GLOBALS['LANG']->getLL('status_updateTask_email_site')
+			. ': ' . $GLOBALS['TYPO3_CONF_VARS']['SYS']['sitename'];
+		$message .= CRLF . CRLF;
+		$message .= $GLOBALS['LANG']->getLL('status_updateTask_email_issues')
+			. ': ' .CRLF;
+		$message .= implode(CRLF, $systemIssues);
+		$message .= CRLF . CRLF;
+
+		$mail = t3lib_div::makeInstance('t3lib_mail_Message');
+		$mail->setFrom(array($fromEmail => 'TYPO3 CMS'));
+		$mail->setTo($this->notificationEmail);
+		$mail->setSubject($subject);
+		$mail->setBody($message);
+
+		$mail->send();
+	}
+
+	/**
+	 * Tries to generate an email address to use for the From field.
+	 *
+	 * @return	string	email address
+	 */
+	protected function getFromAddress() {
+		$user = 'no-reply';
+		$host = php_uname('n');
+
+			// just get us a domain record we can use
+		$domainRecord = $GLOBALS['TYPO3_DB']->exec_SELECTgetSingleRow(
+			'domainName',
+			'sys_domain',
+			'hidden = 0',
+			'',
+			'pid ASC, sorting ASC'
+		);
+
+		if (!empty($domainRecord['domainName'])) {
+			$tempUrl = $domainRecord['domainName'];
+
+			if (!t3lib_div::isFirstPartOfStr($tempUrl, 'http')) {
+					// shouldn't be the case anyways, but you never know
+					// ... there're crazy people out there
+				$tempUrl = 'http://' .$tempUrl;
+			}
+
+			$host = parse_url($tempUrl, PHP_URL_HOST);
+		}
+
+		return $user . '@' . $host;
+	}
 }