Discourse mail daily summary plugin

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:information_source: Summary Send all new posts in one daily or weekly update
:hammer_and_wrench: Repository Link https://github.com/thoka/discourse-mail-daily-summary
:open_book: Install Guide How to install plugins in Discourse

Features

Fork of discourse-mlm-summary, working on added/changed behavior:

  • send daily/weekly summary at a specified time of day
  • optional diagnostic output to support configuration and troubleshooting
  • daily summaries can be forced for user groups: mail_daily_summary_auto_enabled_groups
  • daily summaries can be narrowed to categories (including all subcategories): mail_daily_summary_enabled_categories
  • time of last run will be remembered in mail_daily_summary_last_run_at Messages between sending time and mail_daily_summary_last_run_at will be included in the summary if set. Otherwise, changes in the last 24h/7d will be sent.
  • optionally enable it for all users (opt out)
  • message template is based on current (2024-04-30) digest template
  • unsubscribe link added

Configuration

If mail_daily_summary_at is not set, summaries will be sent every hour to people, which logged in at the same time of day the first time.

If mail_daily_summary_at is set, all messages will be queued once a day, when the configured time is reached.

Posts from mail_daily_summary_last_run_at on will be included in the summary up to 14 days ago (to prevent accidents).

CHANGELOG

  • this plugin ignores the “disable mailing list mode” setting

TODO

  • add option to notify only about subscribed categories
  • add configuration option to exclude groups
  • add configuration option to exclude categories
  • add possibility to respond to individual topics/posts by mail
  • add specs

CAVEAT (2025/11)

I’m not using this plugin anymore and am not aware of any other users who could report on current usability.

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Lovely work!!!

Would you be willing to make the frequency configurable?

For example, I’d love to push this out on Sunday evenings for the previous week.

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Seems quite doable as a global setting.
What options would be needed (daily, weekly, monthly) ?
Further day of week / month, if negative, counted from the end ?

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It could be tackled many ways, eh?

A simple start would be another setting that asks which days of the week it should apply to.

Maybe weeks of the month too, but that gets a little tricky due to a variability.

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Is each e-mail created per user or is one email sent to all users? If e-mails are individualised, the setting of when and how often the e-mail is sent would be ideally set per user (you talk about global setting - that would then be a default).

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Every user gets an individual mail.
But to do the bookkeeping for individual schedules would be much more work compared to global settings.

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Weekly summaries are now possible.

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Very interesting plugin! One question about…

In the way this plugin has been designed, would it be possible to have top new posts instead of all? As an alternative to this feature request for Discourse core: Option to always receive Activity Summaries even when you've been on the forum

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I really recently installed the plugin and it looked like it was going to work as it sent a digest around the correct time that I set it for the first afternoon. But, it only sent it to 22 out of 56 people and then the next was only sent to 2 people in the next was only sent to 2 people as well.

we have just over 50 people in the forums and I just can not figure out the issue on why is not sending them to everybody. The ones that I did send to our people that have last been on the forum between one day and 50 days, and there were a mix of level zero and level one trust levels.

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Sorry, I’m not using this plugin anymore and will not find time to help debug it in the near future.

Your screenshot seems to show digest emails, not daily summaries.