Mail Error, need to turn off e-mail notifications globally

lorddfg

Some of the users on the board use fake e-mails and every time someone comments, my catch-all e-mail gets flooded with errors. Is there a way to remove that feature or limit it in some way. Having a lot of issues with it.

Thanks.

hgtonight

You can change your notification settings at http://forums.example.com/profile/preferences/. Uncheck all of the email boxes.

lorddfg

Thanks but would that work globally for all users?

hgtonight

@lorddfg said:
Thanks but would that work globally for all users?

You can set the default preferences for new users to not have any of the email options checked.

Do you want to completely disable email or just notification email?

You could hook into the activity model before a notification gets sent and "ban" the user (not really) to prevent the email from being sent.

Something like:

public function activityModel_beforeSendNotification($sender) {
  $user =& $sender->EventArguments['User'];
  $user->Banned = true;
}

vrijvlinder

You can also disable it through the config by making the values Zero

$Configuration['Preferences']['Email']['ConversationMessage']   = '0';
$Configuration['Preferences']['Email']['AddedToConversation']   = '0'; // merged with ConversationMessage
$Configuration['Preferences']['Email']['BookmarkComment']       = '0';
$Configuration['Preferences']['Email']['WallComment']           = '0';
$Configuration['Preferences']['Email']['ActivityComment']       = '0';
$Configuration['Preferences']['Email']['DiscussionComment']     = '0';
$Configuration['Preferences']['Email']['DiscussionMention']     = '0'; // merged with regular mention
$Configuration['Preferences']['Email']['CommentMention']        = '0';
$Configuration['Preferences']['Email']['Mention']               = '0';

peregrine

@vrijvlinder said:
You can also disable it through the config by making the values Zero

$Configuration['Preferences']['Email']['ConversationMessage']   = '0';
$Configuration['Preferences']['Email']['AddedToConversation']   = '0'; // merged with ConversationMessage
$Configuration['Preferences']['Email']['BookmarkComment']       = '0';
$Configuration['Preferences']['Email']['WallComment']           = '0';
$Configuration['Preferences']['Email']['ActivityComment']       = '0';
$Configuration['Preferences']['Email']['DiscussionComment']     = '0';
$Configuration['Preferences']['Email']['DiscussionMention']     = '0'; // merged with regular mention
$Configuration['Preferences']['Email']['CommentMention']        = '0';
$Configuration['Preferences']['Email']['Mention']               = '0';

good idea for new users
because that only applies for new users who register.

but still something needs to be done for existing members. (either manually change profile via checkboxes or stopping email via plugin like provided above, etc.)

or if the plan is to completely override email class
http://vanillaforums.org/discussion/26740/how-to-override-gdn-email-phpmailer

or

http://vanillaforums.org/discussion/comment/217676#Comment_217676