Digest Email Support

[TristanBrotherton]

Would be a good feature for email notifications, allowing a user to have all notifications added to one email to receive once per day.

[adamn]

An important part of this would be to first create a batch concept more generally. For instance, if an event is triggered 1,000 times, there should be a method to bundle that into one notice. That notice would then form the basis of your digest email.

[adamn]

I'm probably going to do a patch on engine.py around line 47 or so to allow for a notice_type/user grouping feature when emit_notices is signaled.

[adamn]

A comment from a committer would be helpful here.

[TristanBrotherton]

Any more thoughts on this? I'm consider doing a fork two implement. Our users really want a digest mode.

[adamn]

A digest mode is critical but after reading alot of this code I realized that django-notification and django-mailer are tightly coupled and they need to be worked on as a unit. In addition, the Pinax team wants to do a pluggable backend for the notification system - but I haven't seen any of that code.

I'm sorry but I don't have any good comments right now - I haven't looked at the code in about 3 months and I remember noting that this would be a serious change.

Cheers,
Adam

[adamn]

Tristan, have you started the fork. Coincidentally, I now need this functionality.

[TristanBrotherton]

Hi AdamN - we are trying to work out the best way to implement internally.
Ideally I'd like an option on notification preferences "digest my notifications" which would send one email a day with all notifications in it - probably using a different set of templates.

[adamn]

This might be best accomplished in jtauber/django-mailer

[adamn]

Ok, I started this post on pinax-users:

http://groups.google.com/group/pinax-users/browse_thread/thread/a493a88f5e9527c7

I don't think django-mailer ever implemented the digest functionality and it doesn't seem like the right place to have it anyway. I'm going to try to work on this today and tomorrow.