Question about New Reply Notification emails in 3.0

[AtariAge]

In IP.Board 2.3, you only received a single notification email when someone made a response to a topic you were subscribed to. You then would not receive further emails until you visited the thread. In IP.Board 3.0, you receive an email every time someone responds to a topic. You could easily have 50 emails from a single topic before you go and visit the thread to get caught up.

Was this done intentionally or should I file a bug about this behavior? I much prefer just the single email, not to mention the reduced overhead in not sending out so many emails.

Thanks,

..Al

[.Ian]

You should have the choice of.....

No Email Notification - This option will not send out any email notification, but will retain the topic in your subscriptions panel.
Delayed Email Notification - This option will send out a notification if a reply has been made and you're not active on the board.
Immediate Email Notification - This option will send out a notification immediately after a reply has been made, regardless of your activity.
Daily Email Digest - This option will send out a daily digest showing all new replies for the day
Weekly Email Digest - This option will send out a weekly digest showing all new replies for the week

[AtariAge]

[quote name='isdoo' date='26 August 2009 - 05:10 PM' timestamp='1251324613' post='1849232']
You should have the choice of.....

No Email Notification - This option will not send out any email notification, but will retain the topic in your subscriptions panel.
Delayed Email Notification - This option will send out a notification if a reply has been made and you're not active on the board.
Immediate Email Notification - This option will send out a notification immediately after a reply has been made, regardless of your activity.
Daily Email Digest - This option will send out a daily digest showing all new replies for the day
Weekly Email Digest - This option will send out a weekly digest showing all new replies for the week

This isn't really relevant, I understand the different options. These are worded exactly the same as 2.3. My question is whether the forum should be sending more than one email for new topic replies, or just a single email for any specific topic until you visit the board again. This behavior changed between 2.3.6 and 3.0.

..Al

[.Ian]

Oh I see - sorry mis-read.

[AtariAge]

[quote name='isdoo' date='26 August 2009 - 05:43 PM' timestamp='1251326597' post='1849239']
Oh I see - sorry mis-read.

No problem. :)

..Al

[AtariAge]

Bump -- can someone from Invision comment on this before I go file a bug? :)

..Al

[bfarber]

There's already a bug about receiving multiple emails for single topics - perhaps this explains that bug report?

[AtariAge]

I filed that bug report you're referring to:

http://forums.invisionpower.com/tracker/issue-16654-recieving-duplicate-new-reply-notification-emails/

That's a different issue, where I'm getting more than one copy of the same email for various forum notification emails. This includes Tracker emails, PM emails, and so forth--not just "New Reply Notification" emails, so I don't really think it's related. This looks like intentional behavior that perhaps needs to be changed.

..Al

[Dlf]

User option of what they want? Every reply (with these:
No Email Notification, Delayed Email Notification, Immediate Email Notification, Daily Email Digest, Weekly Email Digest) or not every reply (such as in IPB 2.x)? Or would that be more resource intensive?