Send optional email alerts for different site actions.

[Danielle Foré]

If someone answers my question, I should get an email. Otherwise how will I know? If someone PMs me and I've not visited the site lately, how do I know to read it? If someone relies to a comment I made on a Journal entry, how do I know to read it and possibly respond?

Right now, a lot of actions on the site are one-stop ordeals. Providing email alerts would draw people back to the site, greatly increasing user interaction (and ad revenue!).

[Kiran Hampal (khampal)]

We've decided that mails could put too much load on the site, so for time being we will not fix this.

[Danielle Foré (danrabbit)]

What about using the site's internal messaging system?

[Kiran Hampal (khampal)]

Ok, I have implemented a system so now users can select to get notifications from answers to their questions via private message. :)

[LiohMoeller (liohmoeller)]

Hi Kiran.

Where can I activate this setting?

Greets
Marcus

[LiohMoeller (liohmoeller)]

Ah, got it. within the Answers. Is there also a way to do pre-define a default value (e.g. in general I want to receive notifications for all questions I have opened, and maybe even for replyies to existing questions)

[Cassidy James Blaede (cassidyjames)]

I've reopened this bug. I'd like to reconsider sending email alerts. Drupal is built to handle such alerts, and with "only" a few thousand users and single-recipient emails, it won't slow things down. To keep a bit of load off the server, we could always make it an option (like the RabbitBot notifications are now).

It'll bring people back a lot more. Specifically: answers to questions, comments on questions, replies to the user's comments, and PMs.

It'd be different if every user of the site was emailed each time a comment or answer was made, but since in this case it'd be one recipient, it's definitely worth it.

[Cassidy James Blaede (cassidyjames)]

I've gotten a few more requests for this via PM and IRC. It's something people expect to be there. :)

[Jonathan Almeida (jonalmeida)]

Looking forward to this feature coming. To avoid overloading the server, you'll could try implementing a subscription service to each message/answers. That way, if a user doesn't want to be notified about a certain message, they could always turn it off or have it send the notification daily/weekly/monthly.