Test difficulty: Irritating and pernickety Background For this test you will need: a working mail configuration four users enrolled in a courses. Each must have their own address four forums (perhaps create Auto Subscribed?) one editing teacher (can be one of the four users, but may get confusing) and a partridge in a pair tree Setup   Forum 1 Forum 2 Forum 3 Forum 4 Profile digest setting User A Default Digest Subject Digest Complete No Digest No Digest User B No Digest Default Digest Subject Digest Complete Digest Complete User C Digest Complete No Digest Default Digest Subject Digest Subject User D Digest Subject Digest Complete No Digest Default No Digest Note: At present, there aren't many links to /mod/forum/index.php to control the per-forum digest settings. This patch does not seek to address this as I think that we need to consider how this settings page fits into other proposed changes (advanced forums, and allowing unsubscription from forced forums) Therefore you can access the page from /mod/forum/index.php?id= [courseid] . It is linked from forum e-mails, and the activities block. Instructions Note: In these test instructions, the following acronyms are used: DC = Daily Digest with complete contents DS = Daily Digest listing subjects only Post two messages per forum Run the attached CLI script with the --digest argument (this calls the mod_forum component of the moodle cron and should make your life simpler for this testing) Confirm that the following matrix of e-mail was received : Single messages User Forum 1 Forum 2 Forum 3 Forum 4 User A 2 2 User B 2 User C 2 User D 2 2 Digest messages User Forum 1 Forum 2 Forum 3 Forum 4 User A 2 x DS 2 x DC User B 2 x DC 2 x DS 2 x DC User C 2 x DC 2 x DS 2 x DS User D 2 x DS 2 x DC Run the CLI script with*out* the --digest argument Confirm that the following matrix of e-mail was received : Single messages User Forum 1 Forum 2 Forum 3 Forum 4 User A 2 2 User B 2 User C 2 User D 2 2 Digest messages User Forum 1 Forum 2 Forum 3 Forum 4 User A User B User C User D Post two more messages per forum - | Run the CLI script with the --digest argument Confirm that the following matrix of e-mail was received : Single messages User Forum 1 Forum 2 Forum 3 Forum 4 User A 2 2 User B 2 User C 2 User D 2 2 Digest messages User Forum 1 Forum 2 Forum 3 Forum 4 User A 4 x DS 4 x DC User B 4 x DC 4 x DS 4 x DC User C 4 x DC 4 x DS 4 x DS User D 4 x DS 4 x DC Backup/Restore test Create a backup of the course including user data Restore the backup into a new course For each user, check that the digest settings were copied over.