Mailing list question

[wesochuck (Wes Osborn)]

@CarsonWeitnauer

I would request having a Digest option for category notifications

I think that the team is staying away from explicitly cloning the email digest feature. You can find more discussions on the topic in this thread:

Please restore email digests

I am in the process of migrating my club from a Yahoo! mailing list to Discourse. During my investigation, Discourse seemed to be the ideal solution. Many of our users insist on retaining mailing list functionality, but many also want the forum environment. Discourse seemed like the perfect fix. About 1/3 of our users opt for a daily or weekly digest on the current mailing list. They have made it clear that the digest function is a must-have. When I began looking at Discourse I’m pretty sure it…

I think in the end someone developed a plugin to mimic some of this functionality:

Restore Mailing List Mode Daily Summary

For a variety of reasons the option for mailing list mode users to receive a daily summary email was removed. It turns out there are a handful of communities that relied on this feature and as such it provoked a good discussion about the restoration of the feature. It was mentioned in that topic that I was working on this. Thanks to @lkramer and team for sponsoring this work! https://github.com/joebuhlig/discourse-mlm-daily-summary This plugin adds an option to the email preferences for…