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Hello everybody !
On my user pannel I can choose how notifications are sent to me either by mail, jabber or both.

Méthode de notification : Courriel uniquement / Jabber uniquement / Les deux
Méthode pour l’envoi de messages via ce forum.

I don't use Jabber.
Is it possible to see notifications only on the board and therefore not receive emails ?

Thanks in advance for your help
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There should be 2 columns for notifcation and email.

The first means you get a 'badge number' icon top right next to Notification-Private Messages - Username
The second means you get an email. You can tick and untick how you want them.
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Thanks, that's what I'm looking for, but this is for myself.
As an administrator I would like to modify the preferences of another member : how to ?
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Hervé wrote: Fri Jan 31, 2025 10:46 am As an administrator I would like to modify the preferences of another member : how to ?
This is not possible natively in phpBB, you have to go through an extension.
You can use this extension
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This extension allows to Option to Enable / None / Disable for each User Notification for all users
It does not allow to modify the notification preferences for a particular user.

My problem is that a user who has checked "email notifications" has a problem with his email :
each time phpBB tries to send him an email notification, I receive, as administrator, an email saying
"I am sorry to have to inform you that your message has not yet been delivered to one or more recipients"
I asked him to fix the problem or to change his email address but he does not react.
So I would like to uncheck his choice of email notification.
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So I don’t know of any extension that can do what you’re looking to do.
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I don't think you can do that.

You could change their account password, log in to that account yourself, turn the option off and then next time they come they'll just think they forgot their password and do a reset.
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I could even restore his password as I can get it from the DB.
Otherwise I could also modify the options here under directly in the DB but I don't know how they are encoded

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Code: Select all

SET @user_id = 123456;

UPDATE phpbb_user_notifications SET notify = 0 WHERE user_id = @user_id  AND method = 'notification.method.email'; 
UPDATE phpbb_users SET user_allow_viewemail =  0 WHERE user_id = @user_id; 
Just change 123456 in SET @user_id = 123456 to the user ID. This also sets there email to hidden if they have it viewable.
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Thanks a lot, I didn't quite understand how this table worked.

That particular user has notification.method.email for
notification.type.forum
notification.type.needs_approval
notification.type.post
notification.type.quote
notification.type.report
notification.type.report_pm
notification.type.report_pm_closed
notification.type.report_post_closed
notification.type.topic

He has no other notification.method than email, so I think if I set all to zero he will receive no more notification even on the board itself, right ?
I think it is better to replace them by notification.method.board

On the other hand I think I should only modify notification.type.forum, post, quote and topic so that he still receive mails for needs_approval and report*
What is your advice ?
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Just execute the SQL query given by thecoalman by changing the user ID, why look elsewhere?
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It only sets email notifications to no, it has no effect on board notifications.
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Yes I understand WHERE user_id = @user_id AND method = 'notification.method.email'
but he has no other notification method so if I do that he will no more receive notifications at all !
That's why I propose to replace them by notification.method.board
and only for notification.type.forum, post, quote and topic so that he still receive mails for needs_approval and report*

At any rate thanks for your help, I understand now how it works.
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And this meets the demand
Hervé wrote: Fri Jan 31, 2025 12:53 pm So I would like to uncheck his choice of email notification.
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I have seen this problem on my boards where notification emails are bouncing or being returned as undelivered.

It is frustrating there isn't a simple way in ACP->Administer user to disable email notifications for the member.

Hopefully creating https://tracker.phpbb.com/browse/PHPBB-17466 will get some action/resolution.
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