Hack Request: Full-text e-mail notifications

[jminiman]

Hi all,

This isn't nearly as complicated as the full e-mail discussion system proposed in another thread, since I don't care about forum interaction via POP3.

For just one of my forums, I would like to send to those who I have manually selected to receive notification of new THREADS not just notification of a new thread but the entire thread starter itself. Would a hack for this be easy to make?

Thanks for your help!

[Steve Machol]

You could just create a specific style for that forum and add $message to the email_notify template.

[jminiman]

I see how to edit the normal e-mail style that people who subscribe to a thread receive, but if they don't subscribe and I manually add their e-mail addresses to the admin control panel (Forums--Edit), they get a message in this format:

Hello,

XXXX has just posted in the XXXXXX forum of pocketnow.com Discussion under the title of XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX.

This thread is located at [link here]

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Where is this template located?

[Steve Machol]

That would be the email_moderator template.

[jminiman]

Is it possible to change the Subject of that e-mail sent?

[Steve Machol]

In what way? If you want a standard subject title that's used all the time, just edit the template to say whatever you like. If you're looking for a dynamic change, then it really depends on what you want.

[jminiman]

Perhaps I'm being too vague. In the e-mail that is sent to all manually selected individuals, they get an e-mail with:

Source
Subject
Body

I can edit the Body through email_moderators, but Subject cannot be edited from where I see. If the Subject makes no sense or unimportant, the e-mail will be deleted. I need to make the subject meaningful.

[Steve Machol]

I think you'd have to modify the appropriate .php file. I'm not sure which one - you'd have to search for the appropriate phrase ('New Post/Thread Notification'?)

Depending on what you want it to say, this could be an easy change or a very difficult one.

[jminiman]

I searched the PHP files in /forums directory, but found nothing. Could you please point me to the correct file?

Thanks for your patience.

[Steve Machol]

[QUOTE]Originally posted by jminiman
I searched the PHP files in /forums directory, but found nothing. Could you please point me to the correct file?

Thanks for your patience.

[jminiman]

That worked, and worked well. Now just a simple formatting question:

How do I get my signature to properly display in there (if I am the one sending all the moderator messages)? I tried just typing it in, but there are awkward spaces in between each line. Can I do something like:

Hey reviewers,
Just wanted to let you know that $threadinfo[title] is available for review. Let me know if you'd like to take this evaluation project by posting to the thread: $bburl/showthread.php?threadid=$threadid.
As always, it's a first-come, first-serve deal. Thanks!
$post[signature]

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That $post[signature] is not bringing up anything.

[Marc Smith]

I liked that feature in UBB. I'm not into 'hits' by making people come to the board to read messages. Just more server load. If I'm reading this right it's just what I've been looking for.

Now we need a Digest feature so once a day a person can get one mailing of all the replies to threads s/he is subscribed to in one e-mail - as an option to a notice for every reply. An option the user could choose.

BTW - did you get the signature problem solved? If so, how?