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After last update Phabricator doesn't send email notifications when subscribing oneself
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At https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/settings/panel/emailpreferences/ "Email Notifications" is set to "Send me email notifications", "Self Actions" to "Send me an email when I take an action", all options under "Maniphest Tasks" set to "Email". And yet no email notifications are received for self-subscriptions.

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Can you check the "A task's subscribers change." field for its value?

Can you check the "A task's subscribers change." field for its value?

It's set to "Email" as I wrote earlier, sir. Actually, I got no notification of your subscription either! :-\\

Actually, I got no notification of your subscription either! :-\\

There was no separate subscription action but adding a comment to this task. Does that mean you received no email notification about Danny's comment? Or that the email notification exists but did not mention the subscriber change?

I've got subscription changes from another bug, which Andre subscribed myself to.

Added TestMe ATM.

Actually, I got no notification of your subscription either! :-\\

There was no separate subscription action but adding a comment to this task. Does that mean you received no email notification about Danny's comment? Or that the email notification exists but did not mention the subscriber change?

Actually there was. I've just checked my mailbox and found one of older subscriptions of myself:

Danny_B added a subscriber: Danny_B.

TASK DETAIL
  https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T98017

EMAIL PREFERENCES
  https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/settings/panel/emailpreferences/

To: Danny_B
Cc: Danny_B, Alleycat80, Itzike, Elitre, AleXXw, JeanFred, Braveheart, 80686, Rfarrand, Qgil, Aklapper, Claudia.Garad, Gryllida

There was no separate subscription action but adding a comment to this task.

Are you 100% sure? Phabricator likes collapsing changes.

Does that mean you received no email notification about Danny's comment? Or that the email notification exists but did not mention the subscriber change?

The email notification exists but did not mention the subscriber change.

Danny_B added a comment.

Can you check the "A task's subscribers change." field for its value?

TASK DETAIL
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T127314

I confirm, that no self-subscription mail has been delivered. Just tested on my susbscription to some task and waited for about 15 mins for possible delayed delivery.

Aklapper triaged this task as Medium priority.Feb 28 2016, 4:56 PM

I noticed the other day I got a email about a bug where someone else had subscribed, It only mentioned the herald change and no mention of the Subscribers change.

Aklapper lowered the priority of this task from Medium to Low.Mar 21 2017, 10:03 AM

If I get it right this is nowadays "Email Notifications = Enable" and "Self Actions = Enable" under https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/settings/user/self/page/emaildelivery/ , and the "Maniphest Tasks" section under https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/settings/user/Malyacko/page/emailpreferences/ . I can confirm this.

epriestley subscribed.

This is expected: since https://secure.phabricator.com/D14853, we've explicitly hidden these stories from feed and mail under the rationale that they are universally uninteresting.

(When a transaction group has no stories which would appear in mail, we drop the mail.)

See also https://secure.phabricator.com/T8952 for a vaguely-related task upstream.

Aklapper lowered the priority of this task from Low to Lowest.
Aklapper removed a project: Phabricator (Upstream).
Aklapper edited projects, added Phabricator (Upstream); removed Phabricator.

I'm going to boldly decline this per last comment. The current behavior has been in place for years now and we don't plan to maintain a downstream patch.