New Post Notification
 

I would like to notify certain usergroups via email when a new post is made in certain forums.

From what I see, I can type in individual email addresses followed by spaces in the admincp>forum manager>edit forum>Email Addresses to Notify When there is a New Post. This isn't favourable as members can change user groups and I would have to manually revise the list. Not to mention adding new users...

Is there a hack that would allow me to just type in the user group in the email address to notify in admin cp?

I don't think there's a hack out for this, but it sounds pretty easy to code up if you have a comma-separated field in the forum editor. Here's some pseudo-code that you can put wherever the current e-mailing calls are made:

$usergroups = '(' . $usergroup_field . ')'; // you probably want to validate input for your actual implementation
$emails = $vbulletin->db->query_read("SELECT email FROM _vbuser WHERE usergroupid IN $usergroups");

while($result = $vbulletin->db->fetch_row($emails))
{
vbmail($result['email'],$title, $message);
}

There's a mod that allows instant notification for forum subscriptions. But users have to subscribe to the forum themselves. And last I looked it had no options at all such as excluding forums or usergroups.

Note that subscribing people involuntarily like you're planning could quickly get you blacklisted.

thanks for the input...

Is there a way I can modify the text in the notification message?

Yes, virtually all text in vb is in AdminCP>Phrases.