Force a forum to send out mails on alerts

[vexx]

Basically, I want to force a specific forum to send out emails when a new thread is posted, no matter of the user' settings. In particular, I want all the moderators to receive an email when there's a new thread in the Administration area so they can come and read it.

Is this a possibility? I haven't looked for an addon just yet, figured I might be blind and didn't see any option.

 

[Jeremy]

You'll have to find an add-on to do this. All of XenForo default functionality follows the user preferences.

And watching a forum is yet to be a functionality.

 

[AndyB]

Basically, I want to force a specific forum to send out emails when a new thread is posted, no matter of the user' settings. In particular, I want all the moderators to receive an email when there's a new thread in the Administration area so they can come and read it.

Is this a possibility? I haven't looked for an addon just yet, figured I might be blind and didn't see any option.

This can be done by creating a stand alone script that runs from a cron job.

 

[vexx]

This can be done by creating a stand alone script that runs from a cron job.

unfortunately, I'm not a programmer so that's beyond my skills

 

[AndyB]

unfortunately, I'm not a programmer so that's beyond my skills

You might like to create a new thread here:

http://xenforo.com/community/forums/custom-service-development-requests.69/