Actually, I followed ALL of the suggestions posted in this topic, but none of them resolved the problem. I tested all the plugins - twice - and then downloaded the other plugin you suggested and hired a developer to use that plugin to troubleshoot the issue. He explained that the plugin was of no use (i.e., it didn't help him diagnose the problem) and found the workaround I described above. I agree that I need to figure out what the problem is, but the suggestions here - even when I hired someone more technically skilled than me to implement them - didn't seem to work. If you - or anyone else - have any other ideas, that would be really great.
Thank you
Dear Margaret,
With the help of WPForo support team it was fixed for my situation. The problem for me was that I did set wrong access level for user groups. Or more precise; I used secondary User group for forum acces instead of (main) user group. Hopefully this information will help you for your situation.
Kind regards, Theo
No, don't think so. Just give the user group standard access to the selected forum. My mistake was to give access to members which were selected in secondary User Groep. Hereunder a copy of the message from WPForo support team;
>All works fine. The problem is in Private Forum. You've created a private forum for testing. You new registered Users "Subscribers" don't have access to the forum you're testing. It seems you've created a topic then made it private or something else. In any case the problem is in forum accessibility to the user you're testing. Make sure the Usergroup of thet user has Standard Access or higher access to that forum, otherwise that user will not receive email notification.
We just set Standard Access in these forums (it's important to set both levels) for your default Usergroup "ASSV Lid" (Subscriber) and this user receives all email notifications without any issue. Then we set "No Access" access to these forums and that user stop receiving email notifications. That's correct and all works correct. User should not receive new topic/post email notification from forums where they don't have access. It doesn't mean they had access before and subscribed before.<
Kind regards, Theo
Dear Theo,
OK, I think my problem must be different then. I suspect it goes deeper than the forum plugin, but I'm waiting for our IT person to get back to me on the various issues.
Thanks so much though, for posting that. I wish my problem were that easy to resolve!
Kind regards,
Margaret
🤨 Problem was not easy, but solution was easy after finding the problem. Hope you find your problem quickly!