Hi all,
I just wanted to get some thoughts on a minor change to the forum 'Mail now' setting - raised many years ago in MDL-19020.
At the moment this setting is used to bypass the post editing time setting - i.e. the setting which gives you 30 minutes (by default) before your post is sent.
There has been much confusion over this setting because this is all it does, and for those subscribers who are subscribed by daily digest, it won't make much difference at all. It will not mean that you get the message immediately (or whenever cron next runs at least) and the message will still arrive by daily digest as per the site configuration.
The consensus in that issue seems to be that the checkbox should send to all subscribed users as a single message and bypass the digest settings.
Another set of users also feel that this setting should send to all potential participants of the forum, not just those that are subscribed.
The proposal I have made is that we alter 'Mail now' to ignore daily digest, possibly adding a message to the bottom of the post to advise the user that the post was marked important and therefore their normal digest setting was ignored.
I do not think that we should make any recipient changes hang off the same setting, but instead add a new checkbox which performs this functionality - most likely in a separate issue.
It would be great if anyone out there can think of any uses I have not considered where:
- the mail now checkbox should not ignore daily digest settings; or
- the proposed send to all potential subscribers checkbox is undesirable (ignoring of course those cases where this is already the case).
Obviously the mail now change would be a change in behaviour and would only target a major version of Moodle.
Any feedback on these changes would be great.
Best wishes,
Andrew