[support] continuous trigger on comment being viewed by authenticated user

[Chris Hallinan]

On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 5:18 PM, Marc Poris <marc at funnymonkey.com> wrote:
> Chris,
>
> I'm not sure how you have the email action configured, but using the
> "When a comment is being viewed..." trigger is going to flood "someone"
> with email whenever someone views a node with comments attached.  I
> tried using that a while back and stopped pretty quickly because of the
> email flood.  I suspect there are reported issues that pertain to this...

Hmm, I am the recipient of the e-mail flood, basically I was trying to
use this mechanism to understand the traffic patterns to the site.
The interesting thing here is that using the %username in my e-mail
action (to myself) it always reports me as the username viewing the
comment.  Unless I misunderstand the mechanism, that's the confusion.
I'm not looking at those comments, but it still triggers the action.
I had assumed that the %username reported in the e-mail would be the
authenticated user that is viewing the content.

Regards,

Chris



>
> The emails are either being sent immediately or when cron runs, so, if
> they're not being sent immediately you should be able to test things by
> running cron.
>
> Marc
>
>
> Chris Hallinan wrote:
>> I recently upgraded my site to Drupal 6-6.  I am seeing a strange
>> behavior with triggers, for the event "Trigger: When a comment is
>> being viewed by an authenticated user".  I have created an e-mail
>> action and assigned it to this trigger event.
>>
>> Now I'm getting dozens of these events in a 24 hour period reporting
>> myself as the %username, even when I have not been on the site in
>> quite a long time.  So it appears it's reporting events that do not
>> happen.
>>
>> Has anyone seen this?  Is this /op error or a bug, or worse, someone
>> else hijacking the site, etc?
>>
>> Any ideas how to track it down?
>>
>> Many thanks,
>>
>> Chris
>>
>>
>
>
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