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

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

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