Stream: Zulip
Topic: Announcements on email
Grahame Grieve (Jul 01 2020 at 22:22):
Hey @Tim Abbott can we set it up so that messages to the #Announcements channel are automatically emailed to an email address?
Tim Abbott (Jul 01 2020 at 22:59):
Hmm, good question. I don't think we have a feature that does that specifically, but you could of course build it with the Zulip API.
Grahame Grieve (Jul 02 2020 at 00:07):
thanks. Does someone here want to do that?
Josh Mandel (Jul 02 2020 at 00:25):
Would it send email for every message, including our responses to the people who respond in #Announcements asking them not to talk in #Announcements :-)
Josh Mandel (Jul 02 2020 at 00:29):
It's possible this could almost be done using zapier--- but @Tim Abbott does Zulip have a form of outgoing webhook that lets you send an event for every message on a channel? Or only when the bot is specifically mentioned?
Grahame Grieve (Jul 02 2020 at 00:29):
no responses. only the initial message
Josh Mandel (Jul 02 2020 at 00:33):
Now you need a bot with state :-)
Grahame Grieve (Jul 02 2020 at 00:57):
y
Grahame Grieve (Jul 02 2020 at 00:58):
or with access
Josh Mandel (Jul 02 2020 at 13:41):
Yeah, that's probably a more reliable pattern (receive a message, query the server to see if it's the first one on its topic). This all might make more sense if we allowed a limited set of posters on #Announcements. Even if we strip out the discussion/responses, there are whole threads that just... shouldn't happen on that channel.
Grahame Grieve (Jul 02 2020 at 21:53):
what would be good is not to have newbies post on the stream. @Tim Abbott can we restrict a stream to people who've posted X number of messages elsewhere?
Tim Abbott (Jul 06 2020 at 18:30):
@Grahame Grieve you likely want one of these options:
Tim Abbott (Jul 06 2020 at 18:31):
The "Full members" option might be what you want, if you don't want to limit announcements to administrators; you can require they've had their account for 2 weeks or whatever period makes sense for you.
Tim Abbott (Jul 06 2020 at 18:31):
Our experience in chat.zulip.org is that setting being enabled eliminated accidental sending to our announcement stream from newbies.
Grahame Grieve (Jul 06 2020 at 21:44):
ok thanks. I made that change. We'll find out how effective that is
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