I have noticed that:
When an user has set the property "Email notifications" in his/her account to:
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"For any event on all my projects"
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The notification e-mail about news is sent but when the property is set to
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"Only for things I watch or I'm involved in"
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User does not receive e-mails about news.
I think that it is a huge disproportion between receiving e-mails about ALL events and only events about tasks that are assigned to the particular user.
What about "send me info about things i watch, I'm involved in" and separate choice of sending info about:
* news
* new forum messages
* wiki edits
?

What do you think?

Kind regards

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Good to have better control over e-mail notifications.
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User doesn't receive an email notification when news is being created.
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+1. Definitely would like the ability to have watch-list feature for news updates similar to issue tracker.
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It's really annoying, since there's no way to watch news.

So, to receive news by email you need to receive email for everything in the project, and it makes no sense at all.

We need to notify all project members by default, and possibly have a separated option on notification config page.

There's a suggestion of how to do that here:
http://www.redmine.org/boards/2/topics/10744#message-15485
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Sorry for double post, but there's also a discussion on #2549 about this.
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+1 This is really annoying.
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+1, would also like the same for file uploads
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+1. I think, news is such thing, that every project member must read it ;)
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+1 News may not be hidden, otherwise there is no news!
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+1 *sigh*
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As a temp workaround I've set up an isolated issue named "ANNOUNCEMENTS"

* add watchers to this issue
* when ever you need to announce, add a note to this issue with a link to a news item , wiki change etc...

At least I can control who gets announcements for the time being.
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I think that "Only for things I watch or I'm involved in" should include news. The news can be shown at My page, but I rarely see that page. It's the same with the Overview page for each project - it's rarely that anybody see that page.
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I found a patch for this, but *warning: I'm a complete Ruby noob and have spent less than 15 minutes understanding the Redmine source code*.

Ok, so after this disclaimer here's what I did (and someone please correct this if it's a terrible idea):

In @project.rb@ I've added:

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def all_member_emails
members.{|m| m.user.mail}
end
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And inside the @news_added@ function in @mailer.rb@ I've changed the following line:

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recipients news.recipients
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into:

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recipients news.project.all_member_emails
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This seems to solve the problem. I just couldn't find the @recipients@ field in the news model, so it just sends the email to everyone in the project.
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Implemented what you want in my Subscription plugin: http://projects.andriylesyuk.com/projects/subscription
Can't say it's stable... Need testing! It would be cool if you could help (you can just subscribe)...

_P.S. Non members can subscribe too (if allowed)..._
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Is there any quick fix for version 2.0.3?

edit ----
code bellow works

def all_member_emails
members.collect {|m| m.user.mail}
end
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+1 That is I am searching for.
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Just an update to Assaf Lavie's patch from above. http://www.redmine.org/issues/4700#note-25
Worked for me with Redmine 2.1.4:
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<code class="diff">
diff -rU1 app.orig/models/mailer.rb app/models/mailer.rb
--- app.orig/models/mailer.rb 2012-11-24 10:51:25.000000000 +0100
+++ app/models/mailer.rb 2013-01-22 17:23:41.311774000 +0100
@@ -146,3 +146,3 @@
@news_url = url_for(:controller => 'news', :action => 'show', :id => news)
- mail :to => news.recipients,
+ mail :to => news.project.all_member_emails,
:subject => "[#{news.project.name}] #{l(:label_news)}: #{news.title}"
@@ -163,3 +163,3 @@
@news_url = url_for(:controller => 'news', :action => 'show', :id => news)
- mail :to => news.recipients,
+ mail :to => news.project.all_member_emails,
:cc => news.watcher_recipients,
diff -rU1 app.orig/models/project.rb app/models/project.rb
--- app.orig/models/project.rb 2012-11-24 10:51:25.000000000 +0100
+++ app/models/project.rb 2013-01-22 17:34:54.100322000 +0100
@@ -477,2 +477,7 @@

+ # List of emails for all members of a project
+ def all_member_emails
+ members.collect {|m| m.user.mail}
+ end
+
# Returns an array of all custom fields enabled for project issues
</code></pre>

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Fixed in r11271. Project members are now always notified about news, unless they have turned off notifications.
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relates,Closed,4532,Ability to send e-mail notification to every project member when news appear
relates,Closed,2549,Enable the watching of news
duplicates,Closed,9495,weird email notification behaviour
duplicates,Closed,10791,Broadcast news to project members
duplicates,Closed,14825,News: email notification to users