The discussion revolves around an issue with emails not being sent to all members of a group. Fraudoctor reported that despite having the correct settings, some users (including themselves) have not received email summaries, with the last email sent 5 months ago.
Fraudoctor tested their email settings by sending a test email, which was successful. JammyDodger suggested that summary digest emails are only sent if users haven’t logged into the forum for a certain period. pfaffman mentioned an additional setting, suppress digest email after days, which may prevent emails from being sent to inactive users.
Fraudoctor replied that the issue doesn’t solely affect frequent visitors. JammyDodger recommended checking the email logs for clues, filtering by ‘digest’ for sent and skipped emails, and provided a link to the Discourse Activity Summary Emails Guide for further assistance.
Hello!
When I check my settings, it looks like everyone in my group should be getting emails, but then in users, it appears that not all users are being sent email updates (eg. last email 5 months ago) - and those people do not have email settings changed to prevent email summaries. Even I have not received an email summary and I have not changed my email settings. However, the test email to myself did work.
Any suggestions?
The summary digest emails are only sent if you haven’t logged into the forum for a certain period of time. Is it the frequent visitors who are missing the summary emails?
And there is also suppress digest email after days (default 180, which is more than your 5 month case), which will stop annoying people who obviously don’t want to visit your forum.
In one case yes. But otherwise not.
You could check the email logs for more clues? Is there anything under skipped? Filtering by ‘digest’ for sent and skipped may help narrow it down. If you can pin down if they’re being generated at all that may help find the cause.
If you still have the default default email digest frequency as a week, and the default suppress digest email after days as 180 days, then a summary email should be generated for anyone who hasn’t seen the forum in between those times.
Here’s the FAQ, if it helps?