Posted by Anonymous on September 29, 2011 at 2:09pm
I am trying to get email notifications working on my site. I have been looking at various options and tried a few and so far been unable to anything to work. What I am looking for is similar to what this site is doing where new posts automatically notify users and the user can choose to op-in, op-out, get each post as a separate e-mail or a daily digest if posts.
I would appreciate any information on the subject.
David
Comments
Which modules have you
Which modules have you tested? I think the usual suspects would be:
Yes I tried those and for
Yes I tried those and for various reasons they failed to work. I also tried to use the Rules module to create some workflows but when I try to set up a Rule I get an error and when I tried to save the rule. When found that this appeared to be a reported bug.
I do have PHP experience and could create my own module but I really did not want to get into creating custom code for this site.
Checking in
Checking in to see how you guys have fared with this issue? I raised it again in my post: Site email notifications vs. subscriptions?. Still no clear answer.
Erik Britt-Webb
drupal@ebrittwebb.com
Using Subscription 7.x - 1.0
I reviewed all the various subscription modules and settled on Subscriptions as it seemed to be the most active and had the least number of bugs that would affect me and my intended use. I have been very happy with my choice. There have been a few glitches mostly my fault.
If you decide to use Subscriptions you have to read ALL of the documentation and make sure you understand it because making a mistake and be REALLY painful. Set up a test site first as both practice and allowing you to tweak until you get the results you want. My biggest issues was configuring the e-mail pages to look clean and useful for my users. Also enlist a few of your power users to help test this.
It took me a couple of months to get everything working the way I wanted and work all the bugs out of my design but all the work paid off as it now requires zero effort on my part to maintain and it automagically sends notifications when we want it to and those users that don't want to be notified have turned it off. Surprisingly everyone of my users are very happy with the result.
David