I'm running Drupal 6.4 and Subscriptions 6.x-1.x-dev. The Subscriptions, Content Subscriptions, Subscriptions Mail, Subscriptions UI, Taxonomy Subscriptions components are enabled.

I don't seem to be able to turn off Subscription Notifications at the individual node level. When I uncheck the "Send subscriptions notifications" check box under Publishing Options on the node edit screen and save, the new setting does not take. Viewing the edit screen again reveals this option is still selected. I have tried this with Page and Forum Topic content types, and with an existing node as well as a newly created node, all with the same results.

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The state of this option is not saved. The default is to send a notification, so the checkbox is ON whenever you look at it. When you turn it OFF and click [Save], then no notification is sent at that time.

How would you reword this to make it clearer?

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eblues commented

ah.... yeah. looks like I misinterpreted the use of this option. I thought this was a permanent option to turn off the subscription option for the node, making it unavailable to users. I now understand now that this option is meant for admin to choose whether to send an update notice to those who are subscribed, and I've since learned I need to use the Blocked Nodes function to permanently disable subscriptions for individual nodes.

Perhaps something like "Send Subscription Notifications with this update", would be a little more clear.

A couple of related questions....
Some posts I've read makes me think that the notifications are not sent out immediately, but depend on when cron runs. Is this correct?

Also, I need to use the SMTP Authentication Module to send mail. Is the Subscriptions Module compatible with SMTP Authentication?

thanks

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Ok, I've tuned the text a bit.

Yes, subscriptions_mail send notifications only when cron runs.

I've never heard of SMTP Authentication module. Link?

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eblues commented
Title: Turning off Subscriptions Notifications on Idividual Node » Turning off Subscriptions Notifications on Individual Node
Category: bug » support

The SMTP Authentication Module allows Drupal to bypass the PHP mail() function and send email directly to an SMTP server. This provides an alternative method for sites where the host service disables PHP mail() presumably to combat mass spamming.

The module link is http://drupal.org/project/smtp

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eblues commented

Salvis... I have successfully tested Subscriptions with the SMTP Authentication module.

Subscriptions is a classy module with a lot of functionality, and I look forward to the finalized release.

One additional suggestion... you may want to consider setting the initial user default settings for receiving comment and update notices to ON rather than OFF (in the Preference Section of settings/subscriptions/userdefaults), so that out of the box users only need to subscribe to content to start recieving notifications.

It's obvious when a user subscribes to content that they want to receive notifications, and they shouldn't have to dig around and find a seperate setting to turn them ON. It's good that they have the option to recieve either update or comment notifications or both, but I think they should default to ON.

Of course, I have the option of making ON the default settings for my users, and have done so. But it took me a while to find these settings, and with these defaults set to OFF my first several trail runs of Subscriptions did not result in notifications being sent.

Thanks again for your help!

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salvis
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Status: Active » Fixed

Thanks for letting me know about SMTP Authentication.

My idea was that the admin would configure the default user settings, but I see your point about things seemingly not working out of the box. I've changed it, thanks.

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Status: Fixed » Closed (fixed)

Automatically closed -- issue fixed for two weeks with no activity.

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mecvo1984 commented

I would like to know how to turn the default checked box OFF under Publishing Options. Our users are simply not remembering to turn off subscription notices for every comma that is changed (who wants to be notified of stuff like that, right?) and users subscribing to their articles are being spammed as a result.

How can I turn off the default checkbox which is turned on under Publishing Options? Would like to do this globally, using the v.6 mod. Thank you!

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There is no option to do this. Only users with the administer nodes permission can see this checkbox. If we turned it off by default, then you won't see any notifications at all anymore, unless a node administrator goes out of his way to turn it on for some node...

Maybe forcing your users to Preview before Save would help?

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Gessle commented

I would also like to have an option check box to disable the default ON setting. My purpose would be something like we create tons of different pages, but only few are so important that they should generate mail notification. Now writer has to disable the notification every time she writes a new node... It would be better if she had to only enable the notification when she wants to send mail notification.

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@Gessle: But does "she" have the administer node permission? Without that permission she wouldn't be able to send any notifications at all...

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DudleyDooRight commented

Is there a way to turn ALL subscriptions off? It is not obvious to me.

Is it just by setting Maximum percent of cron job time to use: to 0 ??

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salvis
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Exactly. This will not stop notifications from being queued though, they're just not processed. But you can clear the queue before setting the percentage back to something greater than 0.