Thomas Equeter

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E-mail notification of a contact's activity

Sun, 08 Sep 2019 10:12:14 +0200

I have dragged invited a few friends and relatives to Hubzilla. So far they only visit it when they get prompted to, and that's me @'ing them in a post to trigger an e-mail notification.

Mentioning everyone gets tedious, is there a better way for them to be notified when I post something?

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sensor56

Sun, 08 Sep 2019 15:02:28 +0200

I'm a recent Hubzilla user but I can try to answer. To contact someone directly, in my mind, you can :

* send him/her a post adressed to a specific contact (click on the padlock at the bottom of the editor)
* or send a post with the tag @!channel
* or send a private message (look like a mail but with Hubzilla) via right menu button > private message

If you speak about email notification for a specific user, each user can control himself/herself email notifications via left menu > parameters > channel parameters > notification parameters > emails notification. In this case, your new contact can select email notification for new message.

I let more experienced user confirm this answer. Hopefully it will help.

Thomas Equeter

Sun, 08 Sep 2019 15:56:08 +0200

Thanks for the answer, but that's not what I'm trying to do. I'll try to rephrase.

I'd like my contacts to be able to get a notification outside of Hubzilla when I write a new post shared with them, without me having to mention (@) everyone to get their attention. AFAICT, the e-mail notifications settings do not allow this at the moment.

Keeping a Hubzilla tab open and checking it once in a while for new content somehow doesn't work for them (not enough content?). They need a notification outside of the Hubzilla web interface (e-mail, smartphone app etc.) to notice that I posted something they might enjoy reading.

hEARt PhoniX

Sun, 08 Sep 2019 16:56:34 +0200

You can create a privacy group and sort your connections into these. I believe (but you'd need to try) that may generate an notification, or have a look whether you can configure it to do so.
You may need to enable the privacy group app.

Thomas Equeter

Sun, 08 Sep 2019 17:46:15 +0200

I am (happily) using the Privacy Groups already, but they don't seem to do anything notification-related, nor to provide mention shortcuts at compose time (@Friends would indeed nicely do the trick).

M. Dent

Sun, 08 Sep 2019 21:27:47 +0200 last edited: Sun, 08 Sep 2019 21:25:50 +0200

As a"sender" there is no real way to force an email notification. Your contacts likely have their settings configured to send an email when they are mentioned.

I might envision an add-on or some option that sends email on any new post from a specific contact, but that would be a setting on the recipient side, not on the sender side. It also would be likely to clutter email quite a bit.

I can think of some interesting possibilities to add some sort of add-on to do this sort of thing, but there is nothing native that accomplishes exactly what you describe.

M. Dent

Sun, 08 Sep 2019 21:29:20 +0200 last edited: Sun, 08 Sep 2019 21:27:17 +0200

Also - just a note - adding a privacy group as a recipient will make the message private and only that list would receive the message (and it would only be accessible if the recipient were logged in).

sensor56

Mon, 09 Sep 2019 08:58:24 +0200

@M. Dent "I might envision an add-on or some option that sends email on any new post from a specific contact," This would be a practical, inclusive tool for contacts who prefer to be notified by email.

" but that would be a setting on the recipient side, not on the sender side." I think it's the good way (setting on the recipient side) and it will be easy to explain new contact how to do to receive email notification on new message.