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.