Difference: WebChangesAlert (1 vs. 16)

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three spaces * [ webname . ] wikiName - SMTP mail address
three spaces * [ webName . ] wikiName
three spaces * SMTP mail address
three spaces * SMTP mail address : topics
three spaces * [ webname . ] wikiName : topics

where topics is a space-separated list of topic names.

  • Specify topics without a Web. prefix
  • Topics must exist in this web.
  • Topics may be specified using * wildcards
  • Each topic may optionally be followed by an integer in parentheses, indicating the depth of the tree of children below that topic. Changes in all these children will be detected and reported along with changes to the topic itself. Note This uses the TWiki "Topic parent" feature.
  • Each topic may optionally be preceded by a '+' or '-' sign. The '+' sign means "subscribe to this topic" (the same as not putting anything). The '-' sign means "don't send notifications regarding this topic". This allows users to elect to filter out changes to certain topics (and their children, to an arbitrary depth). Topic filters ('-') take precedence over topic includes ('+').

For example: 

   * daisy@flowers.com
   * daisy@flowers.com: Web*
   * DaisyCutter: Petal* (1) WeedKillers (3) Red*Phlox
   * StarTrekFan: * - *Wars - *sInTheirEyes - *shipTroopers
A user may be listed many times in the WebNotify topic. Where a user has several lines in WebNotify that all match the same topic, they will only be notified of changes to that topic once.

If a TWiki group is listed for notification, the group will be recursively expanded to the e-mail addresses of all members.

TIP Tip: List names in alphabetical order to make it easier to find the names.

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The first entry is the default form, the notification gets sent to the e-mail address specified in the user's home page. The second entry lists an alternative e-mail address. The third entry specifies a group, the notification gets sent to each member of the group.

E-mail Alerts

The frequency of alerts is set by the TWiki site administrator: It could be once a day, every hour, whatever works for the particular web. On TWiki.org, alerts are sent once a day.

See TWikiSiteTools for information on how to setup the alerts.

-- TWiki:Main.MikeMannix - 20 Nov 2001
-- PeterThoeny - 28 Aug 2004

META TOPICMOVED by="MikeMannix" date="1000260771" from="TWiki.WebChangesNotify" to="TWiki.WebChangesAlert"
 

Revision 1528 Aug 2004 - Main.PeterThoeny

 

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The first entry is the default form, the notification gets sent to the e-mail address specified in the user's home page. The second entry lists an alternative e-mail address. The third entry specifies a group, the notification gets sent to each member of the group.

E-mail Alerts

The frequency of alerts is set by the TWiki site administrator: It could be once a day, every hour, whatever works for the particular web. On TWiki.org, alerts are sent once a day.

 See TWikiSiteTools for information on how to setup the alerts.
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META TOPICMOVED by="MikeMannix" date="1000260771" from="TWiki.WebChangesNotify" to="TWiki.WebChangesAlert"

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Web Changes Notification Service

Each TWiki web has an automatic email notification service that sends you an email with links to all of the topics modified since the last alert.

  • You can subscribe and unsubscribe yourself in WebNotify on each web. Changes are immediate.

  • The frequency of alerts is set by the TWiki site administrator: it could be once a day, every hour, whatever works for the particular web.
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Web Changes Notification Service

Each TWiki web has an automatic email notification service that sends you an email with links to all of the topics modified since the last alert.

  • You can subscribe and unsubscribe yourself in WebNotify on each web. Changes are immediate.

  • The frequency of alerts is set by the TWiki site administrator: it could be once a day, every hour, whatever works for the particular web.
    • On TWiki.org, alerts are sent once a day.

See TWikiSiteTools for information on how to setup the alerts.

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META TOPICMOVED by="MikeMannix" date="1000260771" from="TWiki.WebChangesNotify" to="TWiki.WebChangesAlert"

Revision 1323 Jan 2003 - Main.PeterThoeny

 

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  • You can subscribe and unsubscribe yourself in WebNotify on each web. Changes are immediate.

  • The frequency of alerts is set by the TWiki site administrator: it could be once a day, every hour, whatever works for the particular web.
META TOPICMOVED by="MikeMannix" date="1000260771" from="TWiki.WebChangesNotify" to="TWiki.WebChangesAlert"

Revision 1220 Nov 2001 - Main.MikeMannix

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  • You can subscribe and unsubscribe yourself in WebNotify on each web. Changes are immediate.

  • The frequency of alerts is set by the TWiki site administrator: it could be once a day, every hour, whatever works for the particular web.
 
META TOPICMOVED by="MikeMannix" date="1000260771" from="TWiki.WebChangesNotify" to="TWiki.WebChangesAlert"

Revision 1111 Sep 2001 - Main.MikeMannix

 

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Each TWiki web has an automatic email notification service for recent changes. You can subscribe and unsubscribe yourself in WebNotify on each web.

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META TOPICMOVED by="MikeMannix" date="999396004" from="TWiki.WebNotification" to="TWiki.WebChangesNotify"
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You can use an external mail program like sendmail in case the Net::SMTP module is not installed. In this case specify the $mailProgram in twiki/bin/TWiki.cfg.

Call mailnotify at Regular Intervals

For Unix platforms: Edit the cron table so that mailnotify is called in an interval of your choice. Please consult man crontab of how to modify the table that schedules program execution at certain intervals. Example: 

% crontab -e
15,45 * * * * (cd ~twiki/public_html/bin; ./mailnotify -q)
The above line will call mailnotify at 15 minutes and 45 minutes past every hour. The -q switch suppresses all normal output.

On Windows NT / 2000 you can use a scheduled task.

-- PeterThoeny - 16 Mar 2001

META TOPICMOVED by="MikeMannix" date="999328830" from="TWiki.TWikiNotificationOfChanges" to="TWiki.WebNotification"
 

Revision 801 Sep 2001 - Main.MikeMannix

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Web Notification on Changes

 Each TWiki web does an automatic email notification of recent changes. Users can subscribe / unsubscribe themselves in WebNotify of each TWiki web. The Perl script mailnotify is called by a deamon in regular intervals. The script is sending an automated email to subscribed users in case some topics changed in a web within this interval.

Configuring Outgoing Mail

TWiki will use the Net::SMTP module in case it is installed on your system. You need to specify the SMTPMAILHOST variable in TWikiPreferences.

You can use an external mail program like sendmail in case the Net::SMTP module is not installed. In this case specify the $mailProgram in twiki/bin/TWiki.cfg.

Call mailnotify at Regular Intervals

For Unix platforms: Edit the cron table so that mailnotify is called in an interval of your choice. Please consult man crontab of how to modify the table that schedules program execution at certain intervals. Example: 

% crontab -e
15,45 * * * * (cd ~twiki/public_html/bin; ./mailnotify -q)
The above line will call mailnotify at 15 minutes and 45 minutes past every hour. The -q switch suppresses all normal output.

On Windows NT / 2000 you can use a scheduled task.

-- PeterThoeny - 16 Mar 2001

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Monitoring Site Changes

 Each TWiki web does an automatic email notification of recent changes. Users can subscribe / unsubscribe themselves in WebNotify of each TWiki web. The Perl script mailnotify is called by a deamon in regular intervals. The script is sending an automated email to subscribed users in case some topics changed in a web within this interval.
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Configuring Outgoing Mail

 TWiki will use the Net::SMTP module in case it is installed on your system. You need to specify the SMTPMAILHOST variable in TWikiPreferences.

You can use an external mail program like sendmail in case the Net::SMTP module is not installed. In this case specify the $mailProgram in twiki/bin/TWiki.cfg.

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% crontab -e
15,45 * * * * (cd ~twiki/public_html/bin; ./mailnotify -q)
The above line will call mailnotify at 15 minutes and 45 minutes past every hour. The -q switch suppresses all normal output.

On Windows NT / 2000 you can use a scheduled task.

-- PeterThoeny - 16 Mar 2001

Revision 617 Mar 2001 - Main.PeterThoeny

 

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Configuring outgoing mail

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You can use an external mail program like sendmail in case the Net::SMTP module is not installed. In this case specify the $mailProgram in twiki/bin/TWiki.cfg.

Call mailnotify in regular intervals

For Unix platforms: Edit the cron table so that mailnotify is called in an interval of your choice. Please consult man crontab of how to modify the table that schedules program execution at certain intervals. Example:

 
% crontab -e
15,45 * * * * (cd ~twiki/public_html/bin; ./mailnotify -q)
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 -- PeterThoeny - 16 Mar 2001

Revision 516 Mar 2001 - Main.PeterThoeny

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TWiki Notification of Changes

 Each TWiki web does an automatic email notification of recent changes. Users can subscribe / unsubscribe themselves in WebNotify of each TWiki web. The Perl script mailnotify is called by a deamon in regular intervals. The script is sending an automated email to subscribed users in case some topics changed in a web within this interval.

Installation note for Unix platforms: Edit the cron table so that mailnotify is called in an interval of your choice. Please consult man crontab of how to modify the table that schedules program execution at certain intervals. Example: 

% crontab -e
15,45 * * * * (cd ~twiki/public_html/bin; ./mailnotify -q)
The above line will call mailnotify at 15 minutes and 45 minutes past every hour. The -q switch suppresses all normal output.
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Revision 402 Dec 2000 - Main.PeterThoeny

 Each TWiki web does an automatic email notification of recent changes. Users can subscribe / unsubscribe themselves in WebNotify of each TWiki web. The Perl script mailnotify is called by a deamon in regular intervals. The script is sending an automated email to subscribed users in case some topics changed in a web within this interval.

Installation note for Unix platforms: Edit the cron table so that mailnotify is called in an interval of your choice. Please consult man crontab of how to modify the table that schedules program execution at certain intervals. Example: 

% crontab -e
15,45 * * * * (cd ~twiki/public_html/bin; ./mailnotify -q)
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 -- PeterThoeny - 20 Sep 2000

Revision 320 Sep 2000 - Main.PeterThoeny

 Each TWiki web does an automatic email notification of recent changes. Users can subscribe / unsubscribe themselves in WebNotify of each TWiki web. The Perl script mailnotify is called by a deamon in regular intervals. The script is sending an automated email to subscribed users in case some topics changed in a web within this interval.
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% crontab -e
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Revision 219 Aug 2000 - Main.PeterThoeny

 Each TWiki web does an automatic email notification of recent changes. Users can subscribe / unsubscribe themselves in WebNotify of each TWiki web. The Perl script mailnotify is called by a deamon in regular intervals. The script is sending an automated email to subscribed users in case some topics changed in a web within this interval.
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% crontab -e
15,45 * * * * (cd ~twiki/public_html/bin; ./mailnotify)
The above line will call mailnotify at 15 minutes and 45 minutes passed every hour.

-- PeterThoeny - 21 Apr 2000

Revision 121 Apr 2000 - Main.PeterThoeny

 Each TWiki web does an automatic email notification of recent changes. Users can subscribe / unsubscribe themselves in WebNotify of each TWiki web. The Perl script mailnotify is called by a deamon in regular intervals. The script is sending an automated email to subscribed users in case some topics changed in a web within this interval.

Implementation note: Edit the cron table so that mailnotify is called every 60 minutes. Please consult man crontab of how to modify the table that schedules program execution at certain intervals. Example: 

% crontab -e
15,45 * * * * (cd ~twiki/public_html/bin; ./mailnotify)
The above line will call mailnotify at 15 minutes and 45 minutes passed every hour.

-- PeterThoeny - 21 Apr 2000

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