On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 5:18 PM, Marc Poris <marc@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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