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every group member receive email notification when only mention one member in group discussion reply

I have run into a weird bug. I have created a group and set the group email notification to be on by default when the user joins the group. When I mentioned only one group member in the group discussion reply, every member in the group get email notified saying: 'admin mentioned you in a group discussion reply.'.

I have tried in group blog reply, group news reply and other content types and this issue doesn't appear. It seems it only happens in group discussion reply. I tried to disable my custom theme and use elgg default theme but the issue persists.

Any suggestions that where should I look into? Thanks.

damieneskimo 2501 days ago

I found that the issue is probably not with mention plugin, but rather in discussion plugin.

in `discussions/start.php`, there is a function returns the subscription users:

function discussion_get_subscriptions($hook, $type, $subscriptions, $params) {

$reply = $params['event']->getObject();


if (!elgg_instanceof($reply, 'object', 'discussion_reply')) {

return $subscriptions;

}


$container_guid = $reply->getContainerEntity()->container_guid;

$container_subscriptions = elgg_get_subscriptions_for_container($container_guid);


return ($subscriptions + $container_subscriptions);

}

It seems it gets all of the group members subscribed to the group content and notify them. Is there any way we can get around this?

every group member receive email notification when only mention one member in group discussion reply

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