Posted by mattengland on July 26, 2005 at 12:55pm
Hello,
I've posted this issue some time ago with no response:
How can I generate email notifications for all content changes, particularly blog comments?
Details in the above issue link for the Subscriptions module.
-Matt
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i dont know if u can do that ...there must be a way...but why not considering sending massemail to all user for ur changes?there is a mass mail module in the downloads section...
Mass email to _all_ or *some* users?
Are you saying theres means to send email updates for any content change to _all_ users??
What about providing this means (all content update notifications, including comments) on a per-user-subscription basis? *This* is what I really want.
Alas, it gets even better if I can tailor the subscriptions to a per-taxonomy sort of thing (which is why I posted the issue in Subscriptions to start), but I'll take the "all-content-notification" capability for now if I can get it.
-Matt
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do be honest I have not installed this module yet but i know that u can send mass mailz to subscribed users (dont know about selected groups...)...why dont u trying downloading the module and trying it a bit?
No time to test if funcationality is not known
> why dont u trying downloading the module and trying it a bit?
Because I'm managing a startup business (and playing chief IT admin at the same time) and frankly, time is too short. I'd rather have previous users tell me what does and does not work so I can save time doing the trial-and-error stuff.
Anybody have experience with this stuff?
-Matt
How critical?
Subscriptions send a message that the Thread has been updated when a comment is attached, but not comment text. That seems to be OK for most people (esp if anon users can read comments, so they can click and not log in to read).
Notify does the same thing (but on all or nothing basis us user chooses).
RSS? Haven't played with that properly yet but I think it ignores comments entirely, which is a pity.
But I agree - it would be nice to include comments texts. But, as my sig says, can't do the php.
Ian Dickson - loads of community building skills, damn all php/mysql
Can't write code, can write English.
Ian Dickson
Likal.com
Dunno how, but I share your frustration
In my experience, one thing that pulls users back into a site is for the site to send emails notifying the users of changes. e.g. I regularly visit a message board that's based on the invision BB software, and one feature is being able to subscribe to notifications when postings or replies are made. It's tunable so you subscribe only to the boards you're truly interested in.
I installed the subscriptions module ... but it's not seeming to do anything useful. I've subscribed to all the categories on my site, and I post on my site regularly, but I don't get any email notifications. Is it that the software is smart enough to not notify me that I posted something?
David Herron - http://7gen.com/
- David Herron - 7gen.com/, davidherron.com/drupal-blogging-hints
The 'notify' module
I just found and installed the notify module: http://drupal.org/project/notify
While I might quibble about the formatting of the notification message, it does what I was wanting (mostly). It notified me of every change, and I think I'd rather be able to specify more precisely what areas I want to be notified about.
David Herron - http://7gen.com/
- David Herron - 7gen.com/, davidherron.com/drupal-blogging-hints
Subscriptions do something for me; I'll be checking out Notify
David,
Subscriptions do work for me, although they don't cover all my site requirements (as we've been discussing). It may be the case as you conjecture that you're not getting notified of your own posts. Possibly make a dummy user/email and see if they get the posts? Me and my users regularly get notified of those posts in categories for which we subscribe (and possible because the notifee did not authore the post from the notifier).
As for the Notify module: thanks for the heads up. I'll be checking that out.
-Matt