We are transitioning a number of discussion groups from a custom system to discourse but we need to do testing. We have all email turned off so that users don’t start receiving messages until we are ready . Is there a way to turn email on for admin so we can complete the testing and see how messag…

[image] SherriM: We have all email turned off so that users don’t start receiving messages until we are ready . Is there a way to turn email on for admin so we can complete the testing and see how messages appear, etc? You can enable emails for staff members (admins and moderators) by settin…

Thanks Simon. I checked that setting and it is already set to “non-staff” but we aren’t getting the emails sent to our test group.

[image] SherriM: I checked that setting and it is already set to “non-staff” but we aren’t getting the emails sent to our test group. If your test group is made up of staff members on the site, they should be able to receive emails sent from the site. Discourse notifications do not automatica…

Thanks again Simon. That is helpful. Can we globally set all our users to the same email setting? I.e. can we turn the email notification on by default for all our users?

[image] SherriM: Can we globally set all our users to the same email setting? Yes, Discourse has some email settings that you can use to set default values for your user’s email preferences. These default values can still be overridden by users on their preferences page. You can find the defa…

Enabling email for a test group of admin but not all users

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simon February 21, 2020, 10:56pm 2

You can enable emails for staff members (admins and moderators) by setting the disable emails site setting to “non-staff”. On your site that setting is probably currently set to “yes”.

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Enabling email for a test group of admin but not all users

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