By flyerstarter on

Is there any way to let users get an email when a new comment is posted on their forum topic, in 4.7?

Thanks.

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wdrupal’s picture

wdrupal commented

I am looking for the same thing but for 4.6. This is the most serious drawback of Drupal. It needs forum notification. Sending email notifications for new posts in a thread can drive a lot of traffic to a site.

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KSA213755 commented

I think the subscriptions module (that's subscriptions, not subscription) is supposed to provide that capability. With that module installed, when you create a forum topic, there's a check box where you can subscribe to the post so that you get notified of any comments.

However, I haven't been able to get Subscriptions to actually send out the email notifications. Same problem with the Notify module.

Roger

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wdrupal commented

I'm thinking of just installing SMF in a subdirectory of Drupal. I'm not sure if that will work though. I want the forums to be on the same domain name (not subdomain), but users will only log into the forums. For what I am doing, they don't need to log into Drupal.

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Timos-2 commented

This seems like a pretty basic functionality to me. I'm quite surprised it's not there already.

It's definitely a must.

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sepeck commented

That is why there are contrib modules that supply you with the functionality. Not everyone needs are the same so your must is not someone else's must.

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Timos-2 commented

Sorry, didn't mean to step on anyone's toes. In my opinion it's a must-have for any forums, so in my opinion it would be a good core addition. You see, I think a majority would appreciate. Not sure, of course.