Admin-facing simplification:
- Dropped separate \"lookahead\" and \"historical lookahead\" tree
prefs (and the once-per-month historical gate). A single
\"send every N days\" number now drives both the cron cadence
and the window each issue looks ahead for living + deceased
events.
- Default 14, range 1–90, applies uniformly.
User-facing addition:
- The /my-account/{tree} subscription card gained an \"Email
frequency\" select with options: use site default, weekly,
every 2 weeks, monthly, every 2 months, quarterly. Stored as
a per-tree-per-user preference.
- Dispatch now checks each recipient's own cadence against
their own last-sent timestamp. Admin-added external addresses
with no webtrees account always receive every run (no
per-user state).
- Newsletter footer now reads \"You can change how often you
receive this email, or unsubscribe entirely, in the Newsletter
subscription section on your My account page\" — true now
that the control exists.
German translations updated for the new strings; stale ones
removed.
Recurring email newsletter for webtrees 2.2+. Each enabled tree
sends upcoming birthdays of living individuals, optional marriage
anniversaries of intact couples, and a once-per-calendar-month
historical section of births and deaths of deceased individuals.
Triggered exclusively by an external scheduler (system cron,
systemd timer, etc.) hitting a token-gated HTTP endpoint — never
on visitor page loads. The "is it due?" decision is idempotent
within the configured frequency window.
Per-user subscription is integrated into the built-in
/my-account/{tree} page via a custom view + a decorated
AccountUpdate handler. Admins can add external addresses and
trigger an immediate send for testing. Email body renders in
German for German-language users; English otherwise. Birthdays
and anniversaries are formatted with the upcoming-event ordinal
age (e.g. "45th birthday" / "45. Geburtstag").
Alexander