Disable sending select email notifications?

[MobileCS]

Is it possible to disable sending select email notifications?

The ones I would like to disable are : sticky topic, topic locked, topic moved and topic removed.

[Diego Andrés]

In your your profile in notifications you can select to receive only replies.

[MobileCS]

No, what I mean is sending them to other users.

I do not want them to be notified on certain admin actions - even if they are watching the topic.

[Aleksi "Lex" Kilpinen]

Why? They're going to notice anyway. It's not like the notification is the only way to see what happened.

[MobileCS]

That's true, but what I meant was they don't need to be notified by email that it's happening.

My forum has over 50,000 members, so it would cut back on sending (what I consider) non-essential emails.

[Kindred]

The only way to stop those would be to modify the core code

[MobileCS]

If I were to modify the code, I'm assuming subs-post.php is where I would make the changes?

I was thinking in this section :

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foreach ($notifications as $lang => $notification_list)
Then check $subject if it contains "Topic merged:" or whatever, and use a continue statement if found, bypassing the sendmail() function.

Or is there a better way?

[Sesquipedalian]

Rather than changing the code, which could have unexpected side effects, I suggest that you just run this SQL query:

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UPDATE smf_user_alerts_prefs
SET alert_value = 2
WHERE alert_pref = 'msg_notify_type' AND alert_value < 2
Replace smf_ with whatever table prefix your own database uses.

This will change everyone's notification preferences so that they only receive notifications (1) about replies to topics they are following, and (2) about moderation actions for topics that they themselves started, but not for any other topics. This means that if, for example, you lock a topic or whatever, a single notification email will be sent out to one user (specifically, the original poster) and no one else.

It will still be possible for individual users to manually turn on notification about moderation actions on topics they didn't start, but virtually no one will ever bother to do that.

This approach should accomplish your goal of reducing mail volume while avoiding any risk of adverse side effects.

[MobileCS]

Ok, thank you I will give that a try.