Question "Automatically" subscribe all members to be notified of any new messages

I hate to open up this thread again, sorry.

I have a forum for registered users only. There are 40 groups of users that do not need to be notified of other's communities new topics. It is preferred by the users that they get notifications of new topics.

Is there any work around to subscribe all registered users to new topics?

My first thought:
1. Create a generic community user, with moderation setting for group 1, with an email such as [email protected] (one user for each of the 40 groups.)
2. Then using the cpanel create email forwards from [email protected] to all the registered users emails.
3. Repeat for each of 40 groups. ie [email protected], [email protected], etc.

The one problem is that once a user subscribes to a topic he is going to be double notified. So maybe I just remove the subscribe feature all together since the users will get emails thru the [email protected]

Thoughts?

I have a forum Kunena limited to registered users, are about 40 and is not expected to increase significantly. The forum does not have much movement and I want you when you enter a message is sent an email to all users. Can you do this in Kunena? It would be like to subscribe to all users at all the issues, present and future.
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G'day, CarlosV, and welcome to Kunena.

Your question has been asked and answered in this topic.

OK, so there's no way in the back end to subscribe users to a category. I assume there is probably a way to do it in the MySQL tables but I'm no SQL expert and don't want to mess around in there too much. Has anyone done this or have any suggestions? I need to get a group subscribed to a category and it's just not going to happen unless I do it myself.

G'day, skyhawk85u, and welcome to Kunena.

As you can see, this topic was started over 3 years ago as a kind of "is it possible to do this" thing. As you also know, there is not feature currently in Kunena that allows you to do this kind of thing easily. This topic canvasses a lot of different opinions and ideas about how you might go about having all the members of your community "automagically" subscribed to receive email every time someone posts a message in any category in your forum. There are different opinions about whether such a feature is desirable because of the possibility that, in a very busy forum, people would be bombarded with email.

Yes, there are ways that you can tweak the SQL but we have to be very careful when we start dabbling in things we're not very familiar with (see How To Destroy your forum data... ).

As you also know, this is a community-driven self-help resource. If there's something that people want to do that's not provided within the standard feature set, then we will do our best to try to help but the Kunena project makes no guarantees that it can help or can continue to guarantee that certain ideas relating to one version of Kunena will apply in a later version of Kunena.

For those people who can make the changes that they need to make, that's good. For those people who can not make the changes that they want to make, what would you like the community to do to help you? Perhaps you may consider using the category Requests for help - offering to pay if the requirement is necessary and urgent. If the requirement is desirable or not-urgent - in other words, you may have to prepare yourself for a long wait for a possible solution - then use the category Requests for help - not offering to pay

I hope some of these thoughts give you a bit of guidance about what you may consider doing next.

Thanks for the reply. I did do some more research, then ran a backup and threw caution to the wind. It's easy enough to add the correct entries to the kunena_user_categories table and I haven't noticed any adverse side effects. Since doing this forum use in my organization is up dramatically.