I dont know what Im doing wrong, but I just installed this addon and no emails are coming through to me. I checked the mail settings and they are all fine. Even changed them to different accounts just in case. I have it set to notify me for everything. I made a couple test posts but nothing comes through. What should I be looking for?
Thanks

With forum name in asian characters, the subject of notification mail would be corrupted and not-readable. I've made some modifications to meet the RFC 2047 standard to encode mail subjects correctly.

1. Notify/default.php:350

From:

$e->Subject = $DiscussionForm->Context->Configuration['APPLICATION_TITLE'].' '.$DiscussionForm->Context->GetDefinition('Notification');


To:

$e->Subject = mailSubject( $DiscussionForm->Context->Configuration['APPLICATION_TITLE'].' '.$DiscussionForm->Context->GetDefinition('Notification') );


2. and add the mailSubject() function's code like follows.

function mailSubject( $str ) {
$result = '';
$strArray = explode( ' ', $str );
for ( $idx=0; $idx<count($strArray); $idx++ ) {
if ( $idx > 0 ) {
$blank = ' ';
} else {
$blank = '';
}
$result = $result . '=?utf-8?b?' . base64_encode( $blank . $strArray[ $idx ] ) . '?=';
}
return $result;
}

That's it!

Just installed the plug in NOTIFY. Have read the many other comments and I must say everything seems to be working great for me. EXCEPT...no email. And I see many others have brought up this issue. But many of the answers I see seem to fix other issues, not just the email issue notifying the user that a new post is made.

Is there anyway just to fix this one issue...so users can receive email notifications of new posts. Just this one issue, I get NO other error messages, nothing gets froze, all seems fine. Just the email issue.

Please help or suggest.

The mail function uses sendmail on the server (assuming it's running) the Send function is one of vanillas functions and uses either sendmail or smtp depending on whch is configured in your application settings. Technically Send is the correct way to do it since mail wont work if servers dont have sendmail installed.

That $test value does seem to be slightly errant. I wonder if Mark left that in there by accident...

Can we confirm whether the notify extension works either with or without the SMTP settings?

I have this setting: smtp.gmail.com:465

I get notifications all the time.

Posted: Friday, 13 July 2007 at 7:26AM

We need to make users automatically notified of all forum on signup, but at the same time they can have a link to unsubscribe/subscribe.
Any clues?

which preference name should I switch to "1" ? Can´t find the name

While evaluating Notify, I discovered Javascript bugs related to prototype not being included. I tracked this down to what looks like a bug in line 429 of the extentions, where the three "AddScript" lines aren't braced in. I added these braces, and this fixed the js error.

However, the extension still doesn't work for me :-(...no emails.

I understand that Notify sends an e-mail when a comment is made to a discussion the user has subscribed to. Is there any functionality available that goes the other way? Could a user potentially reply to the e-mail, and have that message tack on a new comment to the forum discussion?

Great stuff hutstein, I love the way it works now.
It would be great if there was an option to remove it from the panel and put all the controls on the account page?

What if one is using Discussions Overview and has hidden all that information from view?

@Wanderer: That's a good point! The other subscribe/unsubscribe on the panel is also working and I think I need to write a "howto implement the notification control to the Discussion Overview"

@HouseinProgress: a very good feature... I will try to implement it...

Not sure if this is of any value, but when setting to NOTIFY_ALL = 1, works like a charm.

When set to 0, the notify table in the DB just doesn't get poulated at all. it's empty. I tried jprado's code tweak to function.php, but made no difference.

Hope this helps.

any users who can test the really really pre-release of the new version?

just send me a mail: mail@hutstein.de
this version is not for productive use!!!

Emailed you.

My version is the same as the bottom one, curly bracket and all, so it does not need fixing.

Posted: Thursday, 1 November 2007 at 6:09PM

I was hoping this fix would make notify work- still does not seem to write anything to the LUM_notify table when i subscribe.

The Ajax doofer seems to run ok, and then the link will change to say "unsubscribe" , but no joy.

Thanks joey, will try your suggestions.

I am currently testing some modifications (shared below), that are seemingly working well and consistently with my configurations so far, to get this current version of Notify extension to NOTIFY the original authors who have posted a discussion and who have checked the "Notify me, when comments are posted in my own discussions" option, within the notification control panel from the Vanilla account.php page, but who have not subscribed to the entire forum or entire cateogry

This modification adds a basic call to the User table to get the information needed to email the original author of comments - since, as I stated above, the information stored to identify and email users in situations where comments have been added to their own discussions is not stored in the Notify table, along with the rest of the subscribe/unsubscribe data, but instead is stored in the User table SubscribeOwn field of the Vanilla database.

So far, through brief testing, adding this code has not caused repeat emails to be sent over the same comment in cases where the user who is emailed is subscribed to the entire forum, same cateogry, as well as has "Notify me, when comments are posted in my own discussions" set to receive comments added to their discussion.



Navigating to the Vanilla "conf" folder and adding this line to the settings.php near the other Notify extension info: $Configuration['NOTIFY_ALLOW_SUBSCRIBEOWN'] = '1';

Then complimented by navigating to Vanilla's extensions folder to the Notify folder, and adding the following code to the defualt.php within the Notify folder - about line248:
if ($DiscussionForm->Context->Configuration['NOTIFY_ALLOW_SUBSCRIBEOWN'] == 1) {
$result = mysql_query("SELECT A.UserID,A.Email,A.FirstName,A.LastName,A.SubscribeOwn,B.AuthUserID, B.DiscussionID FROM ".$DiscussionForm->Context->Configuration['DATABASE_TABLE_PREFIX']."User AS A, ".$DiscussionForm->Context->Configuration['DATABASE_TABLE_PREFIX']."Discussion AS B WHERE B.DiscussionID = '$DiscussionID' AND B.AuthUserID <> '$SelfUser' AND A.UserID <> '$SelfUser' AND B.AuthUserID = A.UserID AND A.Notified = 0 AND A.SubscribeOwn = 1",$DiscussionForm->Context->Database->Connection);
while ($row = mysql_fetch_row($result))
if (($Whispered == 1 AND $WhisperUserID == $row[0]) OR ($Whispered == 0))
array_push($Notifieusers,array($row[0],$row[1],$row[2],$row[3]));
}


*** the above code should end just above the following line that is included by default: #Add all users who have subscribed to all, aren't already notified except the posting user

Hopefully the above modifications will help make this extension more useful and consistent at least temporarily until the next, more stable version is finished.


In my configuration, I also changed the following line to bypass the 1 email sent limit. As this limitation seems to have been implemented to prevent repeat emails but it appeared that only 1 email would be sent no matter how many comments were posted in different categories (ie users only received emails one time regarding one discussion in one category and never received any other emails informing them about comments posted in other discussions to which they were contributing. Alternately you can very likely just eliminate that mysql_query if you want your users to receive emails everytime a comment is posted to the discussions to which they are subscribing.

Approximately line:313:

(Was) mysql_query("UPDATE ".$DiscussionForm->Context->Configuration['DATABASE_TABLE_PREFIX']."User SET Notified = 1 WHERE UserID = '$val[0]'");
(Changed - Notified = 1 to Notified = 0)
mysql_query("UPDATE ".$DiscussionForm->Context->Configuration['DATABASE_TABLE_PREFIX']."User SET Notified = 0 WHERE UserID = '$val[0]'");



If it helps.

Wanderer: "I really wish this add-on would work well, busy people rely on it, they cannot visit every day in case something has been added."

Yeah Wanderer, it is definitely a necessary component for conveying up-to-date message board functioning and effectiveness. From sifting through the comments on this extension above it appears that hutstein and some others have been working on it for quite a while and hutstein mentioned above that they may be close to a new version.

Thanks for the info on your "Enable Whisper" configuration.

What about realisation of other tags that I see in php file (used in mail template) ?
Like send comment to e-mail or person name...

Hi,

Thanks for a nice extension! However, there is one thing that seems to be wrong.

Users seem to be notified about discussions in categories to which they do not have access to. This should definitely be checked when sending notifications. I do not want users who do not have access to some restricted categories to get notifications about messages posted into those categories.

Please correct me if I'm wrong, but I think this is quite a critical fault in this extension.

BR,
Johan

can someone fix that?

Added the fix which Dinoboff posted above to prevent this extension from causing faults with the rest of the forum. I have not added any of the potential new features as posted above as i am not aware of them having been fully tested. If someone wants to package them and test them then they are welcome to take over the extension with hutsteins agreement.