Preparation

1. Prepare an email testing tool.
2. Ensure that the forum standard cron runs every minute or open /admin/cron.php in another tab.
3. Setup one user with single post (no digest) forum preference (normally this is the default).

1. 1. Click on the user profile icon on the top right.
   2. Select preferences from the dropdown.
   3. Click on the Forum preferences.
   4. Change __ the Email digest type accordingly.
2. Setup one user with mail digest (complete or subjects) forum preference.

Course and forum preparation

1. Create a course.
2. Enrol one user with single post preference and one user with mail digest forum preference to the course.
3. Create a forum.
   1. Turn on the edit mode.
   2. Add a new activity from any section.
   3. Choose forum.
   4. Fill in the forum name, then save the forum.
   5. Turn off the edit mode.
4. Ensure both users are subscribed to the forum.
   1. Go to the forum.
   2. Navigate to the subscriptions menu.

Test

1. From inside the forum, create a new discussion topic, then click advanced.
2. Type the forum subject and message.
3. Check the Send forum post notifications with no editing-time delay or else it will wait 30 minutes to send the email.
4. In the display period section, enable the display start for a few minutes ahead.
5. Ensure that the digest won't be sent right after the post went live (would lead to problems diagnosing)
6. Open the database, and in the mdl_forum_posts table, locate the forum post record we have created and change the created field value to be more than 7 days ago.
7. When the post goes live, Ensure the cron is running or open /admin/cron.php in a new tab before checking the following steps.
8. When the post goes live, ensure that the single post user receives the mail.
9. When the post goes live, check the forum_queue table and ensure it contains an entry that says that the digest user will receive the timed post.
10. To immediately send the digest, open task_adhoc table and modify the nextruntime field for \mod_forum\task\send_user_digests record to the past time.
11. Ensure the cron is running or open /admin/cron.php in a new tab before checking the following step.
12. Verify that the user with the mail digest post preference receives a digest with the timed post inside. 

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