Anyone use Messaging and Notifications successfully?

Try notify module for a super simple email notifications solution. It's one module, not highly configurable, but does let you specify which node types can go out.

I've started changing my sites from Notify to Notifications for two reasons:
(1) On some sites, I need Notifications for Organic Groups and I don't want to use both.
(2) I think Notifications has stronger support. When I first looked at upgrading Notify from 5 to 6, I didn't think there would be a version 6 for Notify.

For some sites, I want notification on for new users by default. I've tested notifications_extra, Custom subscriptions and it seems to do what I want.

Can you tell us a little more about your configuration and how you're testing it? One problem I have is that new configurations only affect new users, so I had one user I deleted and recreated often to check out what new users will see. And before I switch sites from Notify to Notifications I need to figure out how I'll convert existing users. But my sites are so small, manual conversion is an option.

I tried to reproduce your problem on test.nccommunities.org, but it works for me. Here's what I did:

at http://test.nccommunities.org/admin/content/types/add created content type announcement.
Allowed subscription types: Thread, Content type.

http://test.nccommunities.org/admin/messaging/customsubs/new
added custom subscription: event type Node, Visibility User editable, will be shown to users, Enabled for new users.
http://test.nccommunities.org/admin/messaging/customsubs/csid/2/fields
select Node type, select Announcement, Save
Edit user hallman. "Testing new announcement content type" is unchecked. Check it and Save
http://test.nccommunities.org/user/2/edit Messaging and Notifications settings
Default send interval: set to Immediately

Create an announcement: http://test.nccommunities.org/node/add/announcement
(Notifications: Do not send notifications for this update. is NOT checked)
Save: http://test.nccommunities.org/node/175

http://test.nccommunities.org/admin/messaging/subscriptions/overview
Testing new announcement content type 1
Notifications in queue Immediately 13

Run cron.php
Reload http://test.nccommunities.org/admin/messaging/subscriptions/overview
Notification in queue: 0

Lots of messages in my inbox including:
New Announcement: test announcement notifications
Greetings hallman,
test announcement notifications

Read more http://test.nccommunities.org/node/175

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This is an automatic message from Test site for NCCommunities
To manage your subscriptions, browse to http://test.nccommunities.org/user/2/notifications
You can unsubscribe at http://test.nccommunities.org/notifications/unsubscribe/sid/44?signature=.....

I have been researching similar issues with the notification and notification_add_on module. The problem I have is not being able to update existing users with the nodes or tags selected for notification. I am using Custom Subscription to force notifications for Announcements and Events not allowing users to change and then notification tags for Forums which topics of interest can be selected by users. By default the new user has all forum topic tags selected, by hand of course. My problem is that there is no way to go back and update all existing users if a new topic is added or changed. Or in my case the Notification table was blown away after adding a notification module update and needing to uninstall it. So if anyone has any ideas, I think this would be a great enhancement to the notification module and add-on by adding the ability to update all users. I will be posting this in the appropriate forum when I find it. I considered recreating the notification table by code but I believe there maybe relational data in some of the other tables and don't want to wast my time interpreting the scheme.

Saving....