A user, DDo, wants to set up email notifications for a specific group to receive notifications only for a certain category, but not for all other categories. tobiaseigen points to a relevant meta post, which helps partially. However, DDo still faces an issue where the group receives email notifications for posts in other categories. tobiaseigen explains that this is likely caused by the “mailing list mode,” which sends emails for every post in every accessible category. Finally, DDo resolves the issue by disabling the mailing list mode, thanks to tobiaseigen’s clarification.
What do I have to set if I want the users of a certain group get an E-Mail Notification when a new Topic / Reply is posted in a certain category - but not for all else categories?
Managed to get a notification to the group users by setting them to watch the category and enable the mailing list mode.
But when there is a new posting in another category, a mail is sent too. How do I deactivate that?
I want that a special group is informed of new postings in a certain group initially and can then have the opportunity to set other categories to watched. But they must be left alone with all else (They can read that upon a visit to the page).
that was partially what I was looking for - thank you for your help.
Regarding that and having controlled: Yes, my special Group is watching (notification level 3) that special meant category. And they all receive an e-mail upon a new posting in that category; and noone else does. So that is really fine.
But … when I post something in another category they all (all members of that special Group) get notification e-mails also. And that is not what I want. They have no entries concerning that Group in category_users.
Probably - mailing list mode is a fire hose. With that enabled, you get an email for every post to the forum in every category that you have access to.
