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Digest Option

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ademanuele:
I have moved to SMF from a mail-based discussion forum system. SMF is a major improvement, but one feature that it (does not seem to) have is the ability for a member to subscribe to digests so that they can get a digest of postings at a frequency of their choice e.g. daily, weekly etc...

Kindred:
that is because SMF is a forum, not a mail-based discussion.... 
digests are part of email mail-lists, not forums....

ademanuele:
In SMF a user can opt to get a copy of a posting rather than just a notification (When sending notification of a reply to a topic, send the post in the email (but please don't reply to these emails) (this is set in Profile > Modify Profile > Notifications )). This combines the best features of a forum and mail-based discussion group.

I have been operating a mail-based system since 1994 with over 30,000 subscribers. I know that many will not like the web-based option alone but mail-based discussions are not flexible enough and most users will prefer a SMF, however, I would like to provide an option where users can still receive postings by email (they can get single messages with SMF but not digests). I do believe that this would be a valuable feature for some users and provide additional flexibility.

Arantor:
It's built in. Seriously.

When someone requests notification on topics/boards, it will normally do that as soon as it happens. But you can also set it to daily or weekly from your own profile > Notifications, so you can get whatever works best for you personally.

ademanuele:
Thanks, I have only been using SMF for a couple of weeks but it is truly amazing....

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