Forum subscriptions by email
Overview
- Wild Apricot allows your members to subscribe by email to discussion forums or specific forum topics - to get email notifications about new posts.
- Note however these are just notifications, the member will still need to visit your site in order to view the forum / topic or post, they cannot post/view directly via email - so this is not like a 'listserv'/mailing list. .
- Members have to subscribe themselves - they cannot be subscribed by the admin.
- Once a member has subscribed both the admin and member are able set / change the frequency at which the email notifications are sent.
How to subscribe to a forum
To subscribe (or un-subscribe) to a forum go to the forum page you are interested in and click on the Subscribe to forum link (top-right corner).
Subscribing to a specific topic
- Rather than (or in addition to) subscribing to the entire forum a member might want to subscribe to specific topics only - In this case go to the desired topic and use the Subscribe to topic link.
- Once subscribed you can also un-subscribe from the same place:
Forum subscription settings
Both the member and the admin can view/change all the forums/topics the members is currently subscribed to on the E-mail settings and log screen:
1. Forum subscriptions
- All forums/topics the member is subscribed to (including the frequency email notifications are set to go out) are listed under "forum subscriptions" on the e-mail settings and log tab of the contact record.
- Forum email notifications can go out Daily, Weekly or Immediate - the default is Daily.
- Daily - All forum notifications for each day are send out once a day, in a single email.
- Weekly - Forum notifications for the previous week are send in one email, on Monday morning.
- Immediate - The notification is sent right away (note however the actual delivery could be a few minutes or longer depending on the current mail server load).
2. Email history
All previously sent email notifications are listed in the email history log, at the bottom. See also Log of Sent E-mails
Admin editing of forum subscriptions
To change the subscription settings, find the contact in your database, open details page, go to Email tab and click on the [Edit] button next to E-mail preferences.
- To unsubscribe from any particular forum / topic simply remove the corresponding check mark associated with the forum / topic.
- Admin also has the option to select the Disable ALL e-mails option - this will unsubscribe the member from all topics and prevent member from receiving all other emails originating from the site.
Schedule of forum notifications
See also:
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