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Kunena 6.3.8 Released
The Kunena team has announce the arrival of Kunena 6.3.8 [K 6.3.8] in stable which is now available for download as a native Joomla extension for J! 4.4.x/5.0.x/5.1.x/5.2.x. This version addresses most of the issues that were discovered in K 6.2 / K 6.3 and issues discovered during the last development stages of K 6.3
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Question Multiple Email Notifications
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I'm now getting a ton of Email Notifications with forum posts, like 8 or more for each post. With the earlier version of Kunena, 1.7.2 I was receiving 2 (duplicate) emails and the same with K2.0.0 but with K2.0.1 this has expanded even further. All help appreciated. I posted my config in the other topic but I can paste it here again if desired.
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Howard
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There are four key configuration settings that control email notifications. They are:
- Forum Configuration » Users » Subscriptions » Allow Subscriptions = Yes
- Forum Configuration » Users » Subscriptions » E-mail to Multiple Recipients = <number>
- Forum Configuration » Users » Subscriptions » E-mail Recipient Privacy = Hide Other Recipients (BCC) | Display All Recipients (TO) | Display All Recipients (CC)
- Forum Configuration » Users » Subscriptions » Visible E-mail Recipient = <e-mail address>
In respect of the other three settings, your configuration report shows the following:
- Forum Configuration » Users » Subscriptions » E-mail to Multiple Recipients = 5
- Forum Configuration » Users » Subscriptions » E-mail Recipient Privacy = Hide Other Recipients (BCC)
- Forum Configuration » Users » Subscriptions » Visible E-mail Recipient = <e-mail address> (and we are guessing this might be your own e-mail address, yes?)
- When a new message is posted on your forum, Kunena finds all the subscribers to the topic (and/or category) where the message was posted;
- Kunena splits the users into groups of 5; and
- Kunena sends e-mails to all of these groups plus the email address in the last (visible e-mail address) field
If you want to get all the e-mails, you need to put a larger number into the E-mail to Multiple Recipients field (close to, but not exceeding 100); some mail systems (like GMail) do not allow more than 100 emails at a time.
From a privacy perspective, it's probably best to leave the setting E-mail Recipient Privacy = Hide Other Recipients (BCC). In that way, other subscribers will not see the addresses of the people who receive e-mail notifications.
These settings need to be adjusted (probably by trial and error) until you get a "fit" that works best for you. In your case, you may find it more useful to clear the field Visible E-mail Recipient
I hope this information helps you.
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In other words, what I think we want to know, is one of these e-mails received because you are a moderator/administrator and is the other e-mail because you have subscribed to the topic (or category)?Matias wrote: Are you getting two different emails? Or are they identical to each other? If they are identical, I need to fix that bug.
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One strange behavior I'm seeing is that when users post in the New Member Introduction Area, I got a ton of email notifications, all identical. At least 8-10.
However, with other posts, I get 2 email notifications. I'm pretty sure they are identical. I'll share more data soon.
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Because of you can have only up to 100 receivers for one email without it being marked as spam, sending email notification to 800 users would take 8 emails.
As I said before, I recommend of using email address that isn't your own for "Visible E-mail Recipient". That email address is just needed to prevent emails from going into spam folder as Hotmail, Google mail and others require that every email needs to have visible receiver in it.
So just make a new google account and use it in the setting.
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When I leave the Visible E-mail Recipient field empty, I receive absolutely NO Email notifications at all. This is a giant red flag to me since I'm (obviously) subscribed to many topics on the forum but for whatever reason, I'm still not receiving emails from any postings.
This situation is the same as it was in Kunena 1.7.2. It has not changed. I do not know YET, how many emails other recipients are receiving but I will check on this.
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