E-mail notifications not properly migrated from 2.0

[_Jojo_]

I'm not sure if this is a bug or by design, but if it is by design, it's a bit troublesome for people that don't obsessively visit our forum every day.

I have recently upgraded a SMF 2.0 forum to SMF 2.1, and it seems like pretty much all e-mail notifications have been disabled. Anything from notifications to threads you have been subscribed to, new threads in boards you're watching, and most crucially moderation mails such as notifications when a new member signs up.

I can fully accept if this is how things are in a newly created forum, but is it by design that all of these things no longer result in e-mails being sent after migrating a forum, or is it a bug? If it's by design, is there a query I could run to convert old SMF 2.0 notifications to SMF 2.1 from my database backup?

[Kindred]

I don't believe that is intentional.... and I don't believe that anyone else has noted that issue -- which suggests that something might have gone wrong with your upgrade.

Did you upgrade directly to 2.1.2?

[_Jojo_]

Yep, from the latest 2.0 to 2.1.2. I did notice that in several forums that I administer, e-mail notifications are turned off for (almost?) all alert categories by default. At the very least I would expect to keep receiving emails for topics I have subscribed to for example, but in all forums that I migrated this is how that specific notification setting ended up, see attached screenshot.

[_Jojo_]

Maybe for more context, here are the full notification settings I have on that board with an account that I think should be more or less a global moderator account. It's been a few days since the upgrades so I don't remember specifically if I already changed any of the notification settings on that forum. What definitely struck me as odd was that birthday reminder email: I have never enabled this setting on any of my forums, yet it was one of the few notification settings that was turned on consistently on all forums that I migrated.

Edit: It almost looks to me like the email settings are exactly inverted compared to the original 2.0 settings.

[m4z]

There was a bug in the RC stage, not sure if/how it was fixed. I'll try to find the details, but that will probably take a couple of days.

[live627]

I have recently upgraded a SMF 2.0 forum to SMF 2.1, and it seems like pretty much all e-mail notifications have been disabled. Anything from notifications to threads you have been subscribed to, new threads in boards you're watching, and most crucially moderation mails such as notifications when a new member signs up.

When this forum was upgraded, I also lost all email notifications to threads. Luckily, they were still listed in my notification settings, but were somehow nerfed to alerts only. I had to manually go in and change them all.

[_Jojo_]

That's unfortunate, and I think it's a bit impractical to ask a couple of thousand users across several forums to adjust their notifications (especially those users that might only visit the forum when they receive an email notification, which is definitely how I treat at least some forums). It does feel like a bug in the migraiton script to me.

[_Jojo_]

There was a bug in the RC stage, not sure if/how it was fixed. I'll try to find the details, but that will probably take a couple of days.

Did you find any more information on this?

[m4z]

Nothing definitive. I suspect this has to do with the changes in the RC phase that followed after this report (and others, IIRC): https://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php?topic=569526.0

When updating this forum (SMorg) to 2.1, I also had to set my settings again. I thought that issue only affected forums that had the RC installed, but apparently it affects more / all upgrades? There was even an issue for it, but it seems it was closed by mistake / misunderstanding after only the PM settings were fixed: https://github.com/SimpleMachines/SMF/issues/6956

[shawnb61]

Has anyone reproduced this? 

[_Jojo_]

All I can say is that it happened on all three forums I converted. If it would help you, I can probably dig up a database backup from before the upgrade and share it privately.

[savo]

Has anyone reproduced this? 

I had this issue when I migrated to v2.1.2.  I had to check off Follow topics I create and reply to under the Notification Preferences to get them back.

As for email notifications when a new member signs up, I can't recall the last time I received one.  My forum has very little traffic so it's not a big deal but I did get them before.

[m4z]

Has anyone reproduced this? 

It occured on SMorg and – IIRC – the forum I'm running. Will ask my users to confirm and try to repro under similar conditions as my forum during the next ~4 weeks (install with 2.1 rc3 (or was it rc2?), then update to 2.1.0).

Might also try to do 2.0.19 → 2.1.x, but I can't remember how well that worked with postgres (but I think it did without problems).

[m4z]

I had this issue when I migrated to v2.1.2.

Which version did you upgrade from?

[savo]

Which version did you upgrade from?

2.0.19

[shawnb61]

Confirmed & logged & moved to Bug Reports:
https://github.com/SimpleMachines/SMF/issues/7652

[_Jojo_]

Thanks for looking into it!

Maybe it's a bit too early to ask, but I wonder if it would be possible to provide a script as part of the fix to retroactively fix the conversion for forums that have already been converted to SMF 2.1 (provided that a backup of the old SMF 2.0 database is available)?