By fuzz2400 on

Is it possible to get a mail if someone post a reply to one of my messages in the forum? This way I would be able to respond a lot faster.

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cog.rusty’s picture

cog.rusty commented

There are a few modules:

http://drupal.org/project/subscriptions
http://drupal.org/project/commentmail (for notifying the admin)
http://drupal.org/project/comment_notify (for notifying unregistered people)

fuzz2400’s picture

fuzz2400 commented

Sorry. I was ambiguous. I mean: is there anyway to get a mail on replies on this site (drupal.org)?

cog.rusty’s picture

cog.rusty commented

No... that one and subscriptions to interesting threads have been popular requests for a long time, but nothing yet.

Mail notification in drupal.org is only available for issues, not for forum posts. Perhaps it would be heavy on the server.

mcsolas’s picture

mcsolas commented

> Perhaps it would be heavy on the server.

I would think so.

There is an issue open right now that discusses installing a cutoff mechanism that limits the number of emails you get per topic... so each time someone posted, no matter if youve revisited the forum or not, you would get an email for each one. On an active board like this, turning that on would be a nightmare. No surprise its off.

With this disabled, how can anyone know when topics are updated.
Only 1 place I can find ( besides paging through the forum indexes) is tracker.

So I bookmark tracker.. and each time I want to know if topics are updated, I visit that page and it scans the entire drupal forum, and tells me the updated threads. No problem, except thats probably one of the most active pages on the site and probably also creates an immense load on the database.

Now, consider having the emails with a cutoff after the first message.
If I want to know a thread is updated, I dont need to visit the site, only check my emails.
When one arrives, your linked straight to the discussion at hand ( note this methodology skips calling the forum query in tracker ).

Of course, that may not be the desired configuration for drupal.org specifically ... but there are a lot of users out there ( virtually anyone whos ever used vB or any of the main forum apps ) that natively expect this type of configuration to be available because it helps them more intelligently interact with the site / project at hand.