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

Hello,

I am trying to make it so that, when anyone creates a new thread or posts a reply that it sends a email notification to all members (including those that are not admin/moderators) for the forums. I believe its somewhere in the code put if I could get exact code change that would be great.

Thanks again

We've discussed this topic several times before:

• Multiple email notification when creating new thread
• Create new user or modify moderator permissions

The conventional wisdom is that this kind of request is not a particularly good idea and, as is often the case when people try to find a technological solution to a a non-technological "problem", if you were to succeed you will probably create greater, genuine problems in the process.

I don't know why you want this kind of solution but if you think it will overcome your problem of not getting people to visit your website more often then you are mistaken. Consider if this how you would like to be treated before you impose your procedures and your values on others.

I don't know if your website or discussion forum are very active, but if there is a burst in activity your "solution" will generate a flood of e-mails and most people do not appreciate being drowned.

To summarise what we've said in the past, if you impose an inflexible technological solution, and do not give your users the ability to opt-out, your users will more likely see the stream of e-mail as nothing more than spam and they will probably resent you as the cause of it.

I can see only one purpose, where such a function would really come in hand:
Some private board for small groups of people. containing summarys, reports, financial info or other stuff for the group.

But it would probably only be for private groups and not a good solution (using a forum as document placeholder/filemanager).

I thank you all for your critisisim of doing this. But this is a small group who rarly check the boards and have all unanimously asked that I do this for them. I agree it will create an excess of emails to people (but this is what they want, not only me). The group dont post topics/ replys that often as well. Maybe only 4 a week.

How aboout making it as a weekly activity mail then?

One 'newsletter' a week with all the new threads (and/or postings)..?

Yes Please - a Plug-in or Hack - I don't care how dirty it is :kiss:
It seems the simplest ask.

With a new forum it is an essential tool for getting more users active - it can always be switched off once the number of posts gets to a healthy level.