On Tuesday 01 April 2008, Christopher Smith wrote: > On 1 Apr 2008, at 13:24, 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? > > For me, you are not misunderstanding the notify feature. I haven't > seen the full bug report yet, but if it does refer to the > $conf[['notify'] setting then the bug report may well be closed as > "not a bug". > > Mike, if the above is your meaning, your needs may be better served by > a regular email containing the text contents of the RSS feed or an > action plugin which mails changes to a list of users. Conceivably an > action plugin could check email addresses against users and ACL lists > and mail changes to all users on the list with read rights to the > changed page. > > Rebekah, $conf['notify'] is a list of email addresses not users. My > understanding is that from DW's point of view any email address that > also belongs to a user of the wiki is coincidental. we use notify to go to a mailing list for distribution. it is my understanding there is no other way to hook up to a mailing list. i would have to write a local RSS scraper and have it reformat it myself for e-mail. -mike