Forum email notifications
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Hi
It seems bizarre that this forum doesn’t permit email notifications of replies to posts etc. when it’s the norm to have this option on other forum s/w.
I checked NodeBB’s site and according to the below it is possible, so please can we have the option turned on?
https://community.nodebb.org/topic/12001/email-notifications?_=1589187338670
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Can confirm, setting “When someone mentions you” to “Notification and e-mail” has no effect.
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Although the forum was updated in 2019 (if I remember correctly), email notification has not worked since.
I set “Notification and email” for “When a new reply is posted in the topic you are watching”, but it has no effect. -
@László-Botka said in Forum email notifications:
email notification has not worked since
NEVER worked in the history of this forum would be more accurate.
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@Alan-Kilborn , @Laszlo-Botka , who is administering it?
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@asvc said:
who is administering it?
I presume it is @donho , author of Notepad++.
I know there are some users with elevated forum powers.
But I think a change of the sort under discussion would have to originate from Don.
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I checked the FAQ and I coudn’t see anything about how to contact forum admins.
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@mr-brunes Just seeing this as a new member. There are some cool things about the layout and the preview window and such but I thought it was odd that I was not getting notification emails. Under settings it was set to None or local notification only and setting “When a new reply is posted in a topic you are watching” to “Notification & Email” nothing changes. Not the end of the world but odd.
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@tanquen ,
The email notifications and the associated confirmation email seem to be hit-and-miss. Until last year, there were no email notifications, despite the feature having been listed in settings for all the time of this forum; then one day, they suddenly started working … somewhat. Unfortunately, I cannot give any advice to make it work better. The best thing to do is: when you are actively involved in a conversation here, come back at least once a day to the forum until the conversation has ended – that works even if you aren’t getting the email notifications.
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@peterjones I used the link with Google, maybe that no work? I also could not get the confirmation email when I joined the other say. It kept saying it sent one but I never got it and could not post until logging out and back in. Just now it stopped letting me post until I logged out and back in again. ???
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@tanquen said in Forum email notifications:
Google, maybe that no work?
My google confirmation worked just fine.
Just now it stopped letting me post until I logged out and back in again
There is a 20minute timeout between posts until you have enough reputation in the forum (+2, IIRC). (That was a technique to avoid spammers creating accounts and then posting many spam messages all at once.) But I am surprised you found a way around the timeout… hopefully spammers won’t figure that one out, too.
Since you’re not a spammer, I’ve given you two upvotes so the 20min threshold shouldn’t apply any more. (I think it’s about 40sec between posts after that).
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@peterjones Ok, thanks. The little message just said you can’t post but not why.
No way to get it to do the confirmation email again? Without changing my email? :)
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@tanquen said in Forum email notifications:
No way to get it to do the confirmation email again? Without changing my email? :)
not that I know of. maybe change it to something fake and then change it back, but that won’t guarantee for you to get it. Like I said, the notification email seems to be hit-and-miss, which means we know of no way to guarantee it gets to you. Sorry.
