hi.
i manage several discussion lists hosted by Dreamhost. for subscribers who prefer digests, there are, it appears, few options for controlling or customizing digest delivery. i had a request that digests be sent weekly, but it appears that the frequency is dictated only by the size of the volume. is there any way to (a) make digest delivery calendar based rather than folder-size based? (e.g., sent weekly, daily, or whatever, vs. after the folder reaches 30k or 250k or whatever) and/or (b) is there any way to allow the subscriber to set these options for themselves?
thanks, jennifer
ps. Dreamhost tech support couldn't help me and recommended that i contact you.
Jennifer Stanley wrote:
i manage several discussion lists hosted by Dreamhost. for subscribers who prefer digests, there are, it appears, few options for controlling or customizing digest delivery. i had a request that digests be sent weekly, but it appears that the frequency is dictated only by the size of the volume. is there any way to (a) make digest delivery calendar based rather than folder-size based? (e.g., sent weekly, daily, or whatever, vs. after the folder reaches 30k or 250k or whatever) and/or
On the list's admin->Digest options page, set digest_send_periodic to Yes. This will send a digest at intervals determined by the crontab entry for 'senddigests'. The default is daily at noon (host time).
You can also cause a digest to be sent 'now' by setting _send_digest_now to Yes and clicking "Submit Your Changes". Note: setting this value performs an immediate action but does not modify permanent state.
(b) is there any way to allow the subscriber to set these options for themselves?
No
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On Mon, 2005-03-28 at 21:44 -0800, Jennifer Stanley wrote:
hi.
i manage several discussion lists hosted by Dreamhost. for subscribers who prefer digests, there are, it appears, few options for controlling or customizing digest delivery. i had a request that digests be sent weekly, but it appears that the frequency is dictated only by the size of the volume. is there any way to (a) make digest delivery calendar based rather than folder-size based? (e.g., sent weekly, daily, or whatever, vs. after the folder reaches 30k or 250k or whatever) and/or (b) is there any way to allow the subscriber to set these options for themselves?
You can set it to daily delivery if its size threshold has not been reached. Its the 5th option on the digest page labeled "Should a digest be dispatched daily when the size threshold isn't reached?".
Unfortunately you cannot select the granularity of the of the interval. If you had command line access there are other options, but hosting companies for obvious reasons do not permit this.
The digest delivery "event" is a property of the list, not a subscriber preference, although I can see the value in that, its not currently supported.
John Dennis jdennis@redhat.com
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