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I also would like to watch a project's news.

Agree his feature is important. News/Files should either be watchable, or have their own account checkbox, separate from the issues emails. Right now you have to enable notification for everything just to get News updates.

+1 for this feature too. Currently I still have to send an e-mail around about new releases. It would be good if the 'news' section could do this automatically.

As an admin i want to put people who can watch project news, file/document uploads

+1 as well. Email updates are particularly appropriate for the news module, as the first thing you're going to want to do is follow up the announcement by sending it directly to the concerned parties.

A Redmine noob (meaning I don't know how to implement anything),

Ted

Another extremely useful benefit of this feature combined with the user Group feature is the ability to create News and Info Projects that are watched by one or more customer groups, i.e. AllCustomers, GrpACustomers, GrpBCustomers, etc. It then becomes easy to announce product enhancements, planned outages, etc.

+1

+1 This would be very helpful and (I think) not too painful to implement. As Jim Mullis points out, it would be very powerful to include this in addition to groups.

+1
Just to confirm, that it would be really useful specilly for projects with more than a couple of people working, to receive news without receiving all the modifications in the issues.... really useful

Right now, in our project, we have to send an email to the people instead of using the News to avoid that people "track" all the issues mods

+1

Currently I still have to send an e-mail around about new releases. It would be good if the 'news/files/documents' section could do this automatically.

When I add the documents, add news, add files, we can not receive the e-mail.
I have checked all the Administration/Settings/Email notifications/
News added = Yes
Document added = Yes
File added = Yes
and restart apache2, I still have not received e-mail.

+1, this would be very helpful

As a brutally ugly hack, I made my installation send email notifications about added news to all project members regardless of their notification settings. You can see my article about it here:

http://blogs.trekforth.com/2010/04/patching-redmine-08x-for-email.html

I'm not advocating that anyone use this approach, I'm simply waiting for a better solution.

+1
related to #4700

+ 1

Please, add watching to News and Documents. It would be a really nice feature!

+1

Solution here:
http://www.redmine.org/boards/2/topics/10744#message-15485

I have applied this patch but unfortunately, it doesn't seem to work for me. Although emails are sent for other events, nothing is sent out for news added.
Could you please suggest where I should be looking / what could be wrong?

Thx

Ok, it worked for me as well after I marked "News added" under Settings > Email notifications.
Thank you

Please move that feature into the branch!
+1

+1 please fix!

+1 from me... +100 from each of my clients :-)

+1 .. Would be great if you want all your users to receive an email, and track it was sent.. IE. a new release or baseline available.

+1!

+1!
I want to use it to announce new release/important bug-fixes for all that subscribe for this information as watchers (not only to project members).
My project is library that is used by other teams. I don't know who use it. I have to make possible that all teams that uses my library can get information about new releases/important bug-fixes. I think news are right solution.
I will release my library on Hudson and let hudson to send mail to add news. On redmine site I want to use https://github.com/titas/redmine-news-via-email-plugin.

+1

+1

Any plans for the feature? This is something you can do in Basecamp that is very useful.

+1

Is the adding of this feature too complex? Otherwise put it into version 1.2.0 if possible, please.

I created a plugin that sends an email digest of project activity. This includes news items. It's not very configurable (yet), but at least it's a start: http://www.redmine.org/plugins/digest.

I'm new to Ruby coding, so improvement patches are welcome.

+1

I have filed a corresponding issue with ChiliProject, the Redmine fork.

There is a bug in TMail that affects certain email clients. See http://www.redmine.org/issues/8751 (comments have a monkey patch to fix it).

Why are there two different places to adjust the email settings anyway?
If I want to get news, I'm currently bombarded with all these issue updates I have no interest in. Just let the user use checkboxes to select what updates one want's to receive (issues, news, wiki..) and under what circumstances (member, watcher, all..), and let the administrator just set some sane defaults.

related to #8241

Need help testing my plugin which implements news subscription: http://projects.andriylesyuk.com/projects/subscription