I am trying to have people subscribe to a forum, so they get emails with all new posts. There is a "subscribers" field in the database when you define the forum, but this doesn't do anything. And can I allow users to subscribe?
Oct 12, 2001, 2:31 AM
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Oct 12, 2001, 2:31 AM
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Oct 12, 2001, 7:22 AM
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Oct 12, 2001, 7:22 AM
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this I think is just a user setting -- which can be accessed by the user in their profile settings area ... hmmm ... can't seem to find a automatic email function yet ... which is set by the admin ...
hope this helps until GT support stops by
openoffice + gimp + sketch ...
hope this helps until GT support stops by
openoffice + gimp + sketch ...
Oct 12, 2001, 9:32 AM
Administrator (9387 posts)
Oct 12, 2001, 9:32 AM
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Hi,
Users can subscribe by clicking on Edit Profile -> Subscriptions. These are nightly digests that get sent out though, and not an email on every post.
You need to run the subscribe.pl file which is the admin/cron folder. This does the actual mailings.
These things will end up in the docs. =)
Cheers,
Alex
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Gossamer Threads Inc.
Users can subscribe by clicking on Edit Profile -> Subscriptions. These are nightly digests that get sent out though, and not an email on every post.
You need to run the subscribe.pl file which is the admin/cron folder. This does the actual mailings.
These things will end up in the docs. =)
Cheers,
Alex
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Gossamer Threads Inc.
Oct 12, 2001, 6:23 PM
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Oct 12, 2001, 6:23 PM
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Users like to suggest this feature... they think they want it. On small sites, it's very nice. But try it on a forum that gets 100-500 messages/day... that's a lot of e-mail when you have several hundred users subscribed. Bounce-backs, etc... if someone goes out of town for a week, the forum mail can fill up their inbox... or sometimes they'll use an auto responder/vacation response. Hassles from an admin standpoint.
I concluded that it wasn't really worth releasing as a public feature with WWWThreads, after we did it for a few users who insisted on having it. I created an account to get the mail myself, and forgot to check it a few times, then found a couple thousand messages sitting there after a week.
I think daily digests work much better.
Muhammad
I concluded that it wasn't really worth releasing as a public feature with WWWThreads, after we did it for a few users who insisted on having it. I created an account to get the mail myself, and forgot to check it a few times, then found a couple thousand messages sitting there after a week.
I think daily digests work much better. Muhammad
Oct 12, 2001, 10:15 PM
Administrator (9387 posts)
Oct 12, 2001, 10:15 PM
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Hi,
Would it be worthwhile if bounced messages and auto replies were handled automatically? We've done this with another project, and it could work well here.
Cheers,
Alex
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Gossamer Threads Inc.
Would it be worthwhile if bounced messages and auto replies were handled automatically? We've done this with another project, and it could work well here.
Cheers,
Alex
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Gossamer Threads Inc.
Oct 13, 2001, 6:40 PM
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Oct 13, 2001, 6:40 PM
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Alex,
Would you expand on this issue???
It would be great to implement an automated update to my USERS table based on bounced emails...currently, I have to manually go through each bounced email and update my records to BAN (Yes) with a reason stored...I have to do this for about 100 records on average per month.
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Buh Bye!
Cheers,
Me
Would you expand on this issue???
It would be great to implement an automated update to my USERS table based on bounced emails...currently, I have to manually go through each bounced email and update my records to BAN (Yes) with a reason stored...I have to do this for about 100 records on average per month.
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Buh Bye!
Cheers,
Me
Oct 13, 2001, 7:32 PM
Staff / Moderator (2198 posts)
Oct 13, 2001, 7:32 PM
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The e-mail subscriptions send out one e-mail per user per forum per day. That e-mail contains a list of the day's posts in that forum. There is also an admin feature to put a cap on the number of posts included.
Jason Rhinelander
Gossamer Threads
jason@gossamer-threads.com
Jason Rhinelander
Gossamer Threads
jason@gossamer-threads.com