Pre-reqs. A moodle site that can send emails. Two users with valid email addresses. Test Create a course + forum (in optional mode). Enrol two students. As the first student subscribe to the forum and change your digest preference to 'Complete'. As the second student subscribe to the forum and change your digest preference to 'Subjects' As a teacher post two items in the forum, ticking the "Mail now" box. Make the following change to mod/forum/lib.php: diff --git a/mod/forum/lib.php b/mod/forum/lib.php index 29f4f6d..5c83469 100644 --- a/mod/forum/lib.php +++ b/mod/forum/lib.php @@ -902,6 +902,8 @@ function forum_cron() { $weekago = $timenow - (7 * 24 * 3600); $DB->delete_records_select('forum_queue', "timemodified < ?", array($weekago)); mtrace ('Cleaned old digest records'); + $digesttime = $timenow - 1; + $CFG->digestmailtimelast = $weekago - 1;   if ($CFG->digestmailtimelast < $digesttime and $timenow > $digesttime) { Run the forum scheduled task: php admin/tool/task/cli/schedule_task.php --execute="\mod_forum\task\cron_task" Check your e-mail Confirm that the author name shows up correctly. View the text version of the mail and confirm the same.