Does the phorum software allow a preview in notice e-mail?

DRP535 · Post by **DRP535** » Mar 13, 2009 4:10 AM

I know nothing about forum software or managing one or basically anything techinilogical like that and I'm too lazy to find out for myself by searching, so if one of you male models in the Beamter section could tell me that would just be the shiznit.

On some forums, when someone replies to one of your subscribed threads and you receive the advice e-mail which is triggered by such an event, a small preview of the content of the reply post is included in the text of that e-mail. Maybe only the first couple of lines or so and certainly not including any formatting or embedded images or anything like that.

It's a useful feature particularly when the reply is only "Yes" or "Thanks" or "Blow me" or something equally short. You have an idea immediately of the substance of the reply and therefore a better idea of whether you wish to log back on straight away to add another reply or whatever considering your free time available right at that moment of e-mail receipt.

I was just wondering firstly a) If such an option is possible with the current forum software... and b) If it is, then would you please consider enabling it?

Thank you for your time and understanding.

Boomshanka (may the seed of your loins be fruitful in the belly of your woman)

wkohler · Post by **wkohler** » Mar 13, 2009 4:14 AM

Yeah, it's possible. They actually did it for about 3 days with the PMs. There was a reason it was stopped, though.

DRP535 · Post by **DRP535** » Mar 13, 2009 4:17 AM

wkohler wrote:There was a reason it was stopped

Post by **Jeremy** » Mar 13, 2009 4:39 PM

No popcorn needed. The PM thing got shut off because people kept trying to reply to the PM by replying to the e-mail, which simply doesn't work.

may the seed of your loins be fruitful in the belly of your woman

See, now, to me that sounds more like a curse than a blessing. I'm now terrified to answer your original question.

Jeremy

DRP535 · Post by **DRP535** » Mar 13, 2009 7:17 PM

Jeremy wrote:The PM thing got shut off because people kept trying to reply to the PM by replying to the e-mail, which simply doesn't work.

Doesn't the e-mail come suffixed with the generic "Do not reply to this e-mail. You must log in to MyE28.com to reply to this topic blah blah..." sorta bizzo?

And if not, then I presume there is a customisable area where such text can be inserted by your very fine self there young Jezza?

Surely that would solve the problem for all but the most stupid would it not? Can we give this another try? Sure there will always be some teething problems with any new change, but is only 3 days of testing as suggested by Chris really being fair?

Post by **Jeremy** » Mar 13, 2009 7:38 PM

I think it was more than 3 days, and there was such a disclaimer. It simply didn't work, people didn't read or just didn't get it.

Jeremy

DRP535 · Post by **DRP535** » Mar 13, 2009 8:30 PM

So that's a "no" then?

wkohler · Post by **wkohler** » Mar 14, 2009 12:55 AM

Jeremy wrote:I think it was more than 3 days, and there was such a disclaimer. It simply didn't work, people didn't read or just didn't get it.

Jeremy

I still have those messages and they spanned three days. Perhaps there were more, but that's all I received and I get a lot of PMs.