Weird behaviour for sent emails

merefield · December 27, 2021, 4:21pm

This is not weird behaviour, it is deliberate to avoid redundant notification spam for active users.

If you have been “seen” within 10 minutes, Discourse will assume you are currently actively using the site so will not send an email.

github.com/discourse/discourse

spec/jobs/user_email_spec.rb

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              user: user,
              topic: post.topic,
              post_number: post.post_number,
              data: { original_post_id: post.id }.to_json
            )
          }
          before do
            user.update_column(:last_seen_at, 9.minutes.ago)
          end
          
          it "doesn't send an email to a user that's been recently seen" do
            Jobs::UserEmail.new.execute(type: :user_replied, user_id: user.id, post_id: post.id)
            expect(ActionMailer::Base.deliveries).to eq([])
          end
          
          it "does send an email to a user that's been recently seen but has email_level set to always" do
            user.user_option.update(email_level: UserOption.email_level_types[:always])
            PostTiming.create!(topic_id: post.topic_id, post_number: post.post_number, user_id: user.id, msecs: 100)
          
            Jobs::UserEmail.new.execute(
              type: :user_replied,

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Weird behaviour for sent emails

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