Digest emails

[NilsFMH]

I would really like to see a way to activate digest emails to users that are respecting the forum permissions. I know that there are digests emails weakly if users activate them and responses to thir content. But I want to send a digest on what is new on the forum independent of whether the users are created content or not.

[tjk]

+1

[Jim M]

To help us a bit, could you define what you see as a "digest" further? There is the "bulk mailing" feature that you can create your own emails and send them, not automated but you can create whatever you please there. Then you can set the notifications up (as seen in the screenshot below) to send out a daily or weekly email based on content created during that time (by anyone), essentially a "digest."

[opentype]

@Jim M The options in the screenshots really need additional documentation. It might be all there: field names, options and description, but I have read it many times and can’t figure out how these options are meant, how they possibly interact with each other and the user-specific settings and the content-specific settings by users. I am usually very good at understanding such “coder’s logic” things, but in this case I am totally lost. 

[NilsFMH]

To help us a bit, could you define what you see as a "digest" further? There is the "bulk mailing" feature that you can create your own emails and send them, not automated but you can create whatever you please there. Then you can set the notifications up (as seen in the screenshot below) to send out a daily or weekly email based on content created during that time (by anyone), essentially a "digest."

I know of this feature but it does not work on my forum at least (I am currently solving it by SQL-updating the settings for all new users):

https://community.invisionpower.com/4bugtrack/402-notification-settings-not-working-major-r5632/

The bulk-mail can be used to some extent but for me at least it is absolutely littered with bugs (to the point that I do not dare use it because every time I have used it (4-5 times) crappy looking emails have gotten out to all my users:

Some features I would love in a digest email would be (I also want freedom to choose which of them that are included):
Most liked posts/topics
New topics
New posts
Highly rated topics
Latest status updates
Announcements
Custom text block (to use for “did you know”, tip of the week etc.)
New followers
Your followers wrote in this topic…
New members
Etc.

I would like to choose how often it should be sent out (own schedule for example). I would also like to be able to choose how many items of new topics etc. that should be sent. Also would like the possibility to choose which timespan the digest should be looking at (for example most liked content the last 2,5 weeks). You could peak at linkedIn:s digests for some inspiration of features.