Default email digest frequency

[agf1997]

Would it be possible to get something between “Weekly” and “Daily” in “Default email digest frequency” setting?
Perhaps “Every other day”

Even better would be a list of days which could selected … e.g.
x Monday
x Tuesday
x Wednesday
x Thursday
Friday
Saturday
x Sunday

[nathank (Nathan Kershaw)]

I’d love “every 3 days” to make a comeback because it seems to be the sweet spot for our private forums.
(was changed here: Bigger intervals/ lower frequency for activity summary?):

We want this so much that we over-ride the setting and have an ugly “4320” minutes showing on people’s email settings.

Also, it would be nice to be able to turn off the automatic suppression of the summary email that happens when users receive any email from the instance, as per:

Disabling summary frequency

Is it possible to disable the ‘only if users don’t visit’ option for email digest (referencing Discourse Activity Summary Emails Guide)? Ultimately - we hope to send email digests every time interval (eg. one week) to everyone, regardless of whether they have visited or not. If this is possible, any help is appreciated!

[agf1997]

@nathank

So much so that we over-ride the setting and have an ugly “4320”

That’s interesting … how do you override the minutes? Is there a setting I’m missing?
I have the options :

• never
• every 30 mins
• every hour
• daily
• weekly
• every month
• every six months

You’ve gotta have some crazy traffic for every 30 mins to be useful … lol

[nathank (Nathan Kershaw)]

@agf1997

how do you override the minutes? Is there a setting I’m missing?

You have to force a change via the Rails console. My fellow admin @pacharanero did this, and he might be able to drop the code required in here as I can’t find it documented anywhere.

[pacharanero (Marcus Baw)]

@nathank

You have to force a change via the Rails console. My fellow admin @pacharanero did this, and he might be able to drop the code required in here as I can’t find it documented anywhere

I’m not sure it really worked, actually. I changed it (back in 2015, according to our Admin log) on the Rails console using

SiteSetting.default_email_digest_frequency=<DESIRED_EMAIL_DIGEST_FREQUENCY_MINUTES>

Back then, there was no validation of that input. But it seems there is now, and the input of anything that is not in the enum results in

Discourse::InvalidParameters: value
from /var/www/discourse/lib/site_settings/type_supervisor.rb:207:in `validate_value'

That’s probably a good thing in terms of Discourse code quality and stability. But I do get the OP’s point about wanting better options here. The 30 and 60 minutes options seem odd.

[Robin.Grant]

I’m in agreement here! - is there any chance of adding a "every 3 days” option for activity summary emails? Daily is too frequent and Weekly is leaving it too long…