Ben or Will - wondering if these emails respect a user's subscriber status.  I ask because we get a regular amount of people who want to opt out of getting any more emails from the site.  Right now we have to go through an find their notifications, subscription, etc.  Wondering if we can just un-check their subscriber status instead.

 

Yes it should, unless you have auto-subscribe turned on.

Also, if you are using the mail connector I believe a user can send an email with a subject and body of UNSUBSCRIBE to be removed.

Ben, thanks for the quick response. Just to be clear/sure if I belong to three groups and have notifications set for some journal types in each of those groups...and have also subscribed to a few forums and topics.....

....if I remove that users from the Subscriber role they won't get email anymore?

I guess a similar check might be "unauthorize" for the account.

Just trying to get to a place where a user can "opt out" of all emails from one place.

Group notifications do not function the same way as forum notifications. Group notifications are not really controlled by permissions or roles, just by entries in the activesocial_groups_subscriptions table.

You could also do it via SQL, something like

DELETE FROM activeforums_Subscriptions WHERE UserID = '#'
DELETE FROM activesocial_Groups_Subscriptions WHERE UserId = '#'

As I mentioned before, this would not get auto-subscriptions though.

Thanks Ben. I think the gap here might live somewhere between core and AF/AS. The use is is when a member wants to "deactive" their account and/or wants to opt out of ALL emails from the site.

There doesn't seem to be an easy way to make that happen. Ideally if all of the outbound emails checked a user flag (or the subscriber role) this would be pretty easy....then if they re-activated later all of the notifications and subscriptions would still be in place...and active again.

Does this make sense?

Yeah that makes sense. I was just talking regarding the modules functionality.

I am not sure of the best way to achieve this functionality.

On possibility would be for the outbound email code to check Users.IsDeleted. Ideally core could expose this or something else (User.OptOut) that would be checked by all modules before sending out the emails.