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using the Subscribers feature
Hi,

Can someone explain to me the function of the Subscribers feature in gforums? I have mine enabled but haven't recieved any emails from it and I'm curious what the function of it is really for.
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Re: [carminejg3] using the Subscribers feature In reply to
If you activate the Subscription service in GF, registered forum users can receive emails of the post content of a subscribed forum. To activate it, you have to setup a cron to /path/to/your/subscribe.pl at whatever frequency you want (cron every 24 hours = daily subscription, etc.). After this, users must subscribe to the forums they wish to receive content. One email per forum, if posts were made since the last cron. It's a little different than the Watched Thread feature with alerts you if anyone posts replies to a 'watched' thread.

The subscription feature was a must have when shopping for forum scripts. I hope this helps....

Dave