Hi,
Earlier I had enabled Tracking for a particular category. I wasn’t receiving new topic or post emails. As soon as I enabled Send me an email for every new post I started receiving email notification of for all topics and posts.
How are these two related?
Is the only difference between tracking and normal is that tracking adds a count of new replies is shown?
Thanks.
To get an email for every message in a given category, check out the watched setting:
I don’t want email notification for every message but an email notification for each new topic which it seems is not possible with Discourse. And then I can decide which topic I want to participate in. Email notification for new topics in a category is a pretty common feature for forums.
I have no idea what you’re talking about. Watch the category and you will get emailed every new reply in that category.
Note that the first post in a brand new topic is considered a reply, too…
It is not a topic I have replied to. My reply indicate I want to participate in a topic. Just a new reply doesn’t indicate I am interest in that topic.
My immediate question is Send me an email for every new post (unless I mute the topic or category) what does this setting do? How is it different from watch? Which categories is it applied to?
Not to be rude, but it does exactly what it says it does. Unless you are on the site (see the user preference directly below this one), you will receive an email for each and every new post or topic unless the topic itself, or the category the topic is created in is muted.
It is applied to everything on the site, until you explicitly mute something. Watch is applied on a topic or category level, and is more controllable.
All categories, unless you mute the category.
From your first post:
Tracking will not send emails, as it does not create notifications. Assuming default user preferences, you will only receive emails if you receive a notification regarding the topic, which is only generated if you are @mentioned, quoted, replied to, or watching the topic.
The scope wasn’t clear. Thanks for clarification.
If I have Send me an email for every new post enabled and I change notification settings in a category topic to normal which will get precedence the former or the later. If former gets the precedence then watch, track, and normal should be grayed out because only mute can override Send me an email for every new post.
La anterior. A menos que silencies el tema o la categoría (o estés en el sitio), recibirás un correo electrónico.
Eso sería una solicitud de experiencia de usuario (UX). Si deseas que esto se implemente, te sugiero crear un nuevo tema en la categoría Contribute > UX con todos los detalles.
If you have that enabled, you have gone nuclear, this means every single post that occurs on the site, now and forevermore, will be emailed to you. It is really not recommended.
Gracias. Quería asegurarme de que mis argumentos tuvieran alguna lógica.
Puedo ver por qué no se recomienda.
En mi caso de uso, es una pequeña comunidad de personas que trabajan en un conjunto de problemas de programación. Por eso quería participar al máximo. Quiero ver cómo lo están haciendo los demás, leer su código y ayudarles una vez que haya completado mi propio trabajo. Así que no hay mucho ruido.
Estoy acostumbrado a los foros de la vieja escuela donde puedes obtener un feed RSS de todos los nuevos temas, que luego puedes visitar y suscribirte si quieres participar más. También estoy acostumbrado a las listas de correo GNU Mailman, donde básicamente recibes todo. No puedo recibir notificaciones de nuevos temas ni usar Discourse como lista de correo. No hay forma de recibir notificaciones de nuevos temas en categorías en particular. He leído que Discourse puede usarse como reemplazo de listas de correo, pero ni mi cliente de escritorio KDE KMail ni el cliente web Zoho Mail son capaces de agrupar los correos electrónicos como las listas de correo de GNU Mailman. No estoy seguro si es un problema de mi parte o si Discourse no admite el agrupamiento de correos electrónicos.
Dicho todo esto, cuanto más uso Discourse, pienso que la mejor manera para mí sería visitarlo varias veces al día y encontrar todos los nuevos mensajes en la pestaña Nuevo de la barra superior. Y desde ahí puedo seguir temas individuales. También he configurado Considerar temas nuevos cuando - No los he visto aún y Nunca - rastrear automáticamente los temas que ingreso. Todas las categorías en mi instancia de Discourse están configuradas como Normal. Así que recibiré notificaciones de temas que no estoy siguiendo. Eso me da un buen nivel de control.
Gracias.
You will get everything if you turn on mailing list mode, which is the option you described. So you should be set. If you want the site to work like a 1996 era mailing list, you have found the option to do that – you will be emailed every single time anyone posts anything on the site INCLUDING A NEW TOPIC with that enabled. That’s why I called it “nuclear mode”.
Remember, a brand new topic is simply a “first reply”. So it’s the same as any other reply from the perspective of that code, from reply 1, to reply 100.
As for email threading, Discourse provides all the necessary email headers to attach all replies to the topic, e.g. each topic has a unique string – the URL – that’s included in the email headers for every reply to that topic and the first post in that topic. You can view source on the email to browse the headers and see them yourself.
Hi.. I want to ask about setting global, to create a notification for new topic / post to all moderators for all categories.
how to configure it?
thanks
I’m not aware of such a setting. You can just have them watch all categories. If you search here you can find links to plugins that could enforce that with a bit of programing.