By ñull on

After an upgrade from Drupal 6 I am kind of stuck with this NGO Intranet site with many organic groups. It is essential that users don't need to always check the site for new content or responses.

In the previous Drupal version I used the notifications module. Unfortunately this module does not work or seems incomplete for Drupal 7 and beside that it is apparently an abandoned project.

I tried also to install commons_follow but again Again I get bugs that appear to make it disfunctional or things are incomplete. I get no response to queries in the issue queue.

I would like to know who has presently an email notification working on a Drupal 7 site? What modules did you use? Did you experience any problems with installing and can you share any advice how to avoid them? The NGO and me would be very grateful.

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steeph commented

Actually, on D7 I only needed and used Rules for notification emails so far.

I am using Subscriptions on several D6 sites. It seems to have a stable D7 release. It has a lot of options how to let users subscribe to which content. You can enable specific settings by default and let users opt-out, have them disabled by default and let them opt-in or even specify settings for a user role completely and don't let them change it. All settings can be different for new nodes, updated/changed nodes and new comments (if you want to). You can let users manage their subscriptions per content type and/or per node. Users can subscribe to content (or change the current setting) on the node page if you give them permission. Summarized emails each day/week/month/etc. are possible too (the times can be set by an admin).

The biggest problem I had with this is that many users don't find the subscription settings and want an admin to disable or change them for them. Even if they enabled subscriptions on their own, some hate actually getting emails and will refuse to spend any time for disbling them. So, if you plan to let users subscribe to a lot of content, either place and name the subscription settings link wisely, or don't have a support contact.

But it only works for registered users and it can only use the email address they used to create the account.

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ñull commented

Thanks! Good idea, I will try rules first.