FreeLists / dokuwiki / [dokuwiki] Re: preventing commit mails for acl-locked pages

[Michael Klier <chi@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Guy Brand wrote:
> Christopher Smith wrote:
> 
> >> 
> >> any thoughts on how to get this merged in some form ?
> >> -mike
> > 
> > If you haven't already, raise a bug at bugs.splitbrain.org.
> 
> Is that a bug? notify is there to send an email to an address each
> time a change occurs in the wiki, which obviously aims admins or fully
> priviledged users of the wiki. To send an email when a page changes
> (or starting with the latest RC, when a namespace gets changed) one
> rather uses the subscribe changes buttons from the UI and they honour
> ACL settings in the same way the access to the feeds honours them. If
> you put someone behind the notify option, he'll get a message for any
> change to the wiki. Am I misunderstanding this notify feature?

I second that, the address to be set for the "notify" option is not intended
for "public" usage or to even use a mailing list address there. That's what
the subscribe changes feature is for (or the RSS feed). "notify" is for
admins only. This is not a bug!

Regards,
    Chi

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