Details
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Improvement
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Status: Closed
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Major
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Resolution: Fixed
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2.4.8, 2.7.2, 3.1
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MOODLE_24_STABLE, MOODLE_27_STABLE, MOODLE_31_STABLE
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MOODLE_31_STABLE
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MDL-44087-master -
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3.1 Sprint 4
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Small
Description
The Forum digest settings do not observe any notification settings.
The only switch for receving forum emails is the in the user profile "Email digest type", which can only be set to:
- Subjects
- Complete
- Digest
This means that it is not possible for a user to not receive any emails (in our case we have audit users, who can access classes that contain forced subscription forums).
The "emailstop" attribute in the past could have been used to this but as indicated in MDL-26304 & MDL-27171 this has been deprecated in favour of the "Private Messaging" settings for a user.
However if you set "Temporarily disable notifcations" forum digest emails are still sent.
I think that there is still a case for should be "administrative" mechanism to disable all emails for a user account (without having to resort to blackhole email address etc), whether this is a re-instatement of the "emailstop" option or adding a "No email" option to the "Email Digest Type" setting.
Note
The fix for this issue means that messages now come from "Do not reply to this email", whereas they used to come from $site->shortname.
The message subject remains as "$site->shortname: forum digest"