E-mail updates for subscribed forums?

[filburt1]

I was perusing the db schema today and saw this:

mysql> describe subscribeforum;
+------------------+----------------------+------+-----+---------+----------------+
| Field            | Type                 | Null | Key | Default | Extra          |
+------------------+----------------------+------+-----+---------+----------------+
| subscribeforumid | int(10) unsigned     |      | PRI | NULL    | auto_increment |
| userid           | int(10) unsigned     |      | MUL | 0       |                |
| forumid          | smallint(5) unsigned |      |     | 0       |                |
[b]| emailupdate      | smallint(5) unsigned |      |     | 0       |                |[/b]
+------------------+----------------------+------+-----+---------+----------------+
4 rows in set (0.00 sec)

All the values are 0.

1. I've never come across a front-end for this, does one exist in a user's CP?
2. Does it send e-mails to the user for each new post or each new thread?

[Wayne Luke]

They can subscribe by clicking the "Subscribe to this forum" link that appears in the default templates on forumdisplay. Forums that you subscribe to show up on the user's control panel.

There is no email notification.

[filburt1]

So is this column in the database just a relic from a forgotten feature and never implemented?

Edit: by front-end I meant specifically for the e-mail part, sorry for the misunderstanding

[Freddie Bingham]

It is from a planned feature for vb2 that was never implemented, but alas vb3 has it now. All it is, is the ability to subscribe to a thread and not receive email notifications, aka favorites. When working on vb2, John and I could not agree on how to go about doing it so we just skipped it.

[filburt1]

Okay, thanks. Would have been a useful feature