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icon1.gif   config settings to ensure replies to author, thread contributors, admin?, posted by Mark Bergman on Thu May 31 23:46:31 2007 
    icon2.gif   Re: config settings to ensure replies to author, thread contributors, admin?, posted by Stefan Ritt on Fri Jun 1 08:40:13 2007 
Message ID: 2238     Entry time: Fri Jun 1 08:40:13 2007     In reply to: 2237
Icon: Reply  Author: Stefan Ritt  Author Email: stefan.ritt@psi.ch 
Category: Question  OS: Linux  ELOG Version: V2.6.5 
Subject: Re: config settings to ensure replies to author, thread contributors, admin? 

Mark Bergman wrote:
Attributes = Author, Type, Category, Severity, Subject, Entry ID, Status, CC E-mail To
Display Email recipients = 1
Email All = $CC E-mail To
Email All = mark.bergman@uphs.upenn.edu
Email Format = 47
Suppress default = 0
Type CC E-mail To = museremail

The documentation states that there can be multiple "Email All" directives, so I thought they would be additive--causing the admin address and the author to always get mail.


There can be multiple "Email All" directives, but they have to be on one line, like
Email All = $CC E-mail To, mark.bergman@uphs.upenn.edu


Mark Bergman wrote:

Is there a setting to ensure that the original author of the thread is always notified upon any change?


You can do something like:
Attributes = ..., Author Email
Preset Author Email = $user_email
Email All = $Author Email, $CC E-mail to, mark.bergman@uphs.upenn.edu
...

An alternative (and that's what I usually do) is to keep "Suppress email to users = 0" and tell the users to remove their subscription if they don't like it. Note that you also can edit the password file manually (it's a XML file), and remove all subscriptions easily with an editor. Note that you have to do that when elogd is stopped, then edit the file, then restart elgod.

- Stefan
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