I'm starting using NodeBB. It works great till so far.
The most important functionality of my site is email notification. The only way I know to do this is asking everyone to watch a thread. But this is not straight forward.
What I want is some utilities that can send emails to all the users in a group. Is it possible with current version?

P.S. I think notification to all users when new post in a certain category suffices.

@Chong Hey I got it solved.

I changed the port to 4568 instead of 12001 and everything works well. It seems Ubuntu deals with these ports differently.

@julian Right. That's also my guess. The problem is the same config.json resulted in different server behavior. Any suggestion that I can make nodebb listen to *:12001?
Thx.

@frissdiegurke I don't think the problem is with the router since the process is actually listening to
localhost:12001
instead of
*:12001.
Am I right on this?

I've deployed two nodebb instances. One on default port 4567, the other on 12001.
The first site works well and is accessible from LAN, while the other doesn't. I expect that the problem to be due to the listening port.

$ sudo lsof -i :12001
COMMAND   PID USER   FD   TYPE  DEVICE SIZE/OFF NODE NAME
nodejs  25188 cvda   16u  IPv4 1217747      0t0  TCP localhost:12001 (LISTEN)

$ sudo lsof -i :4567

COMMAND   PID USER   FD   TYPE  DEVICE SIZE/OFF NODE NAME
nodejs  27547 cvda   15u  IPv4 1241539      0t0  TCP *:4567 (LISTEN)

As you can see, the 12001 is listening to localhost:12001 while 4567 is listening *:4567. Maybe this is the problem.

Here I paste my config.json.

The 12001 copy

{
	"base_url": "http://162.105.**.**",
	"port": "12001",
	"secret": "byc9989",
	"bind_address": "0.0.0.0",
	"database": "redis",
	"redis": {
		"host": "127.0.0.1",
		"port": "6379",
		"password": "",
		"database": "1"
	},
	"bcrypt_rounds": 12,
	"upload_path": "/public/uploads",
	"use_port": true,
	"relative_path": ""
}

The 4567 copy

{
	"base_url": "http://162.105.**.**",
	"port": "4567",
	"secret": "byc9989",
	"bind_address": "0.0.0.0",
	"database": "redis",
	"redis": {
		"host": "127.0.0.1",
		"port": "6379",
		"password": "",
		"database": "0"
	},
	"bcrypt_rounds": 12,
	"upload_path": "/public/uploads",
	"use_port": true,
	"relative_path": ""
}

As you can see, the visible part is almost the same. I'm much confused on this. Please get me some hints. Thanks.

(Sorry I have to black out my IP)

Hi I'm trying to build a mechanism that post code-generated post on nodebb.

Since I didn't find any schedule related plugin, I'm up to write my own script using node-schedule.

Now I'm wondering if there's any easy-to-use api for nodebb that I can use in my node script to post new topics?