Hi, Josh...noticed this thread and realized a question I was going to post is closely related.

EIDT EDIT: although I had thought email notifications only worked for favorite THREADS, I just noticed that one of the links you provide says they also work for favorite FORUMS...if this is true, it may solve the problem below...I'm going to try it now...EDIT EDIT

Can we set things up so that there is a frequent cron job for moderators, or at least some moderators, so they are notified relatively rapidly that there are new posts in their forums? For now, we want this particularly for a forum where people will pose questions to authors of a new report, and we want the moderator to direct the questions to the right person for a response.

So that the turnaround is fairly quick when a questions are posed, but to avoid all the authors having to monitor the board frequently, we would want a cron job that would notify the moderator by email, who could then forward each post to the right person.

Anyway, can we set up a cron job that way, perhaps specifying for which forums it was done? ...but have this done independently of the regular (daily more or less) subscriptions by users...?

By the way, we're on an infopop shared hosting site, which I see may affect the availability of cron jobs. The threads instructions on cron jobs only discuss daily user subscriptions and threads expiration, so maybe it would be difficult to set up a specialized job of the type I am describing.

If so, would there be any other way to accomplish our purpose, i.e., to have moderators emailed about new posting relatively rapidly?

Thanks - Tony

OK...can't edit my previous post because it has taken me more than 30 minutes to determine that the link that says that you can get email notifications of posts in favorite threads and forums seems to be wrong about the FORUMS. Wish it were right, because it would solve my problem above!!! Tony

If you subscribe to a forum (My Home -> Subscribe / Unsubscribe ...), and a cron task has been set up to run cron/php/subscriptions.php or cron/perl/subscriptions.pl, then posts in that forum will be emailed to you each time the cron task runs.

Hi, and yes...I understand that...but I am wondering if there is any way to set things up for some forums so that the moderators can get more frequent emails of posts to their particular forums than ordinary subscribers get...

So let's say that, as usual, a nightly cron task is run for ordinary users' subscription. Can I set up a different, more frequent task for certain moderators who we want notified rapidly of posts in their forums? So this wouldn't be the usual subscription cron task, but a separate, faster one for certain moderators specified by the administrator.

Any way to do it, either by a special crom task or by modifying something so that emails come whenever something is posted in specific forums (or maybe just whenever a new topic is started in them)?

Thanks - Tony

Not currently - the cron job for subscriptions could be run more frequently though.

I'm not sure if there's been any hacks or modifications to accomplish this at threadsdev.com or not. I know it's been requested before though.

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ah...I was afraid of that, Josh, but thanks - Tony

(I may post the question at threadsdev, but I don't think the chances are great...just trying to make it easier on moderators and others who are pressed for time...)