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Sending Email notification to all members if post is in selected categories..
Hello

I would like to know if we can set up a category so anytime a new post is added an email will be sent to all memebers .
(similar to the GT emils we get when a new announcement is added)
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KaTaBd

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Hi,

I suppose you could auto add everybody to the subscriber list for that forum, and then run subscriptions.pl after a new post.

Cheers,

Alex
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I had Paul write a plugin that automatically adds folks to the subscription list of designated forums after registering on the forum. You still would have to set the cron to every 5 minutes/hour/???? to generate the mailout. It also doesn't prevent folks from unsubscribing if desired.

The only other way I can imagine is to hack the email post notification mechanism and send the post notification to all users instead of the post author.

Dave
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Thanks.
Regards
KaTaBd

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