If a user starts a thread the recipient doesn't get a notification message. Notifications are received for subsequent messages in the thread
In PrivateMessageNotifier the problem starts when checking to see if the recipient has been away long enough to receive the message.
$thread->getLastAccessTimestamp($recipient)
This calls getLastAccessTimestamp in PrivateMessageThread.php. However, if I log the account->id(), it returns the id of then owner/sender of the message. Not the recipient's user id.
public function getLastAccessTimestamp(AccountInterface $account) {
\Drupal::logger('PrivateMessageThreadTodd')->notice('In getLASTaccesstimestamp in Private Message Thread the account ID is ' . $account->id() );
$last_access = $this->getLastAccessTime($account);
return $last_access ? $last_access->entity->get('access_time')->value : FALSE;
}
The result is a timestamp that equals the creation timestamp, since they're equal, no notification is sent. To handle this, I've added another if statement just below the $away_time check in the shouldSend function, but I'm sure there's a better way to handle this.
if ($message->getCreatedTime() == $thread->getLastAccessTimestamp($recipient)) {
$notify = TRUE;
}