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TWikiSiteTools 7 - 30 Jan 2003 - Main.PeterThoeny

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+ TWiki Site Tools
 Utilities for searching, navigation, and monitoring site activity
  WebNotify Recent Changes Alert
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+Each TWiki web has an automatic email alert service that sends a list of recent changes on a preset schedule, like once a day. Users can subscribe and unsubscribe using WebNotify in each web. The Perl script mailnotify is called by a deamon in regular intervals. The script sends an automated email to subscribed users if topics were changed in a web within last interval.
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+Each TWiki web has an automatic email alert service that sends a list of recent changes on a preset schedule, like once a day. Users can subscribe and unsubscribe using WebNotify in each web. The Perl script mailnotify is called by a background process at regular intervals. The script sends an automated email to subscribed users if topics were changed in a web since the script was last run.
 

 You can create a WebNotify link using TWikiVariables with %NOTIFYTOPIC%
 

TWiki handles WebNotify entries that include the WikiName of a user or a TWikiGroup and an optional e-mail address. Example entries in WebNotify:
	 * Main.FredBloggs
	 * Main.FredBloggs - [email protected]
	 * Main.EngineeringGroup


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.

You can also use %MAINWEB% instead of Main, but this is not necessary even if you have renamed the main web by configuring $mainWebname in TWiki.cfg.
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+ You can create a WebNotify using TWikiVariables with %NOTIFYTOPIC%
  Configuring Outgoing Mail 

TWiki will use the Net::SMTP module if it is installed on your system. Set this with the SMTPMAILHOST variable in TWikiPreferences.
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+The notify e-mail uses the default changes.tmpl template, or a skin if activated in the TWikiPreferences.

mailnotify also relies on two hidden files in each TWiki/data/[web] directory: .changes and .mailnotify. Make sure both are writable by your web server process. .changes contains a list of changes; go ahead and make this empty. .mailnotify contains a timestamp of the last time notification was done.
 You can use an external mail program, like sendmail, if the Net::SMTP module is not installed. Set the program path in $mailProgram in TWiki.cfg.
 

  Net::SMTP can be easily disabled (ex: if there is an installation error) by setting SMTPMAILHOST in TWikiPreferences to an empty value.
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-- PeterThoeny?  - 30 Jan 2003

Revision 7	r7 - 30 Jan 2003 - 07:43:00 - PeterThoeny?
Revision 6	r6 - 04 May 2002 - 16:10:36 - MikeMannix?

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