How to disable email notification function?

[hillbun]

How to disable email notification function for posts reply and private message in my forum?

I mean the following:

Always notify me of replies:
Sends an e-mail when someone replies to a topic you have posted in. This can be changed whenever you post.

Notify on new Private Message:

[GE Hosting.com]

Always notify me of replies:
In your profile, under Preferences,

Always notify me of replies: Select no to not be notified


Notify on new Private Message:

In your profile, under Preferences,

Always notify me of replies: Select no to not be notified

[hillbun]

I know this setting. But I want to disable this function in my whole site, in other word, I don't allow users to enable email notification function.

I can not find the setting in my control panel.

Thanks anyway.

[GE Hosting.com]

Hmmmm

Ok, Sorry, I did not understand the question.

You are going to need to edit the Registration Template along with the User Preferences Template.

Also, you may have some problems with default settings. I can not remeber if any of the options are selected by default.

[LifeIsPain]

For postings, you will need to edit templates/subSilver/profile_add_body.tpl by deleteing the following lines...

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	<tr> 
	  <td class="row1"><span class="gen">{L_NOTIFY_ON_REPLY}:</span><br />
		<span class="gensmall">{L_NOTIFY_ON_REPLY_EXPLAIN}</span></td>
	  <td class="row2"> 
		<input type="radio" name="notifyreply" value="1" {NOTIFY_REPLY_YES} />
		<span class="gen">{L_YES}</span>&& 
		<input type="radio" name="notifyreply" value="0" {NOTIFY_REPLY_NO} />
		<span class="gen">{L_NO}</span></td>
	</tr>

then in posting.php, remove (or comment out in case you want)

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//
// Notify checkbox - only show if user is logged in
//
if ( $userdata['session_logged_in'] && $is_auth['auth_read'] )
{
	if ( $mode != 'editpost' || ( $mode == 'editpost' && $post_info['poster_id'] != ANONYMOUS ) )
	{
		$template->assign_block_vars('switch_notify_checkbox', array());
	}
}

Next in viewtopic.php find remove everything between the following (or again, comment out)

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//
// Is user watching this thread?
//

and

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//
// Generate a 'Show posts in previous x days' select box. If the postdays var is POSTed

And I think that will do it for letting the user change. Now we need to make it so that the users can't tell their profile to subscribe by default. Use the following sql code for that...

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UPDATE phpbb_users SET user_notify = 0

I think that covers everything (excep that only topics they are watching will still let them get emails, so just dump (get rid of all the data in) phpbb_topics_watch.

[LifeIsPain]

Now for Private messages.... (it is similar, just some different files). First, here is the sql code you will want:

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UPDATE phpbb_users SET user_notify_pm = 0

Next for the templates/subSilver/profile_add_body.tpl file, remove

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	<tr> 
	  <td class="row1"><span class="gen">{L_NOTIFY_ON_PRIVMSG}:</span></td>
	  <td class="row2"> 
		<input type="radio" name="notifypm" value="1" {NOTIFY_PM_YES} />
		<span class="gen">{L_YES}</span>&& 
		<input type="radio" name="notifypm" value="0" {NOTIFY_PM_NO} />
		<span class="gen">{L_NO}</span></td>
	</tr>

And I think that is it, so easier, but I could be wrong.

[DoodBier]

Thanks!

I had the same problem and it works!

[szquirrel]

This is part of the solution, but not all of it.

When you remove the HTML in templates/subSilver/profile_add_body.tpl you must replace it with:

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<input type="hidden" name="notifyreply" value="0" />
<input type="hidden" name="notifypm" value="0" />

Otherwise PM email notification is enabled by default with no way for users to shut it off.

Aside from that this fix worked very well. Thanks!