[John Lester]

Originally Posted by kh99

I've started to work on this, but I haven't gotten very far - I almost forgot to check this thread to see if you made any progress. Anyway, do you still need this? I only glanced at the dbtech mod, but it looks like it does a lot, so there may still be some use for a mod that simply makes it easy for members to unsubscribe by setting the options.

The mod won't work as far as my host is concerned because it doesn't handle the system emails which are the only emails I send out.

Originally Posted by kh99

Do you happen to know if setting each of those user options to No and deleting all subscriptions covers everything? I was actually thinking of maintaining a list of addresses and checking it in the mail send function as a way of ensuring that no email was sent to someone who opted out (assuming they wanted to opt out of all emails from the site).

As far as I can tell those settings are all of the settings that would trigger an email. I suppose you could not turn off pms and turn off the emailonpm bitfield, but that bitfield is in the group name=regoptions (vs the group name=useroptions where all of the bitfields we talked about are grouped) which I haven't really fiddled around with yet.

Originally Posted by kh99

Edit: you also mentioned moving the user to another group, do you still think that would be a useful option? I thought I'd just start with setting the admin email option to no, then go from there.

I think it is a viable option as it would be another layer of opting out in my opinion. I had created a user group back in Aug of last year that has all of the settings that would send emails turned off except for pms. I would move those users that sent me a reply to the birthday email asking to be un-subscribed, or if the emails were bounced. Since then I've installed https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=138884 to handle the bounced emals and am loving that mod (well until the host blocked all outgoing emails but that's not the mods fault )

I'm actually going to tweak that user group once we get this working to limit the pm inboxes and such to encourage people who do use the unsubscribe but want to use pms to "double opt in (opt in 1 by requesting a user group change and opt in 2 by having to select (or not) the options to get emails) to cover my butt in case they later complain.

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Oh my sometimes I really wish I could afford to get new glasses There is a bitfield for emailonpm in the useroptions group. It's 4096.

I guess the choice depends (in my case for sure) on whether or not you include the changing of user groups. If you include the changing of user groups then I suggest turning off the emailonpm option vs turning off pms altogether.

If you don't include the changing of user groups then i would suggest turning off pms altogether.

Just my $.02 as this is your baby and I'm just along for the ride