Email notifications with new / approved records only

You can create Cobalt plugin with onActivity($actor, $target, $options, $record) event. $options['type'] will contain type of event. And you can send email from there.

Sergey You can create Cobalt plugin with onActivity($actor, $target, $options, $record) event. $options['type'] will contain type of event. And you can send email from there.

I was afraid you were going to say that ;-)

Alright then, how about defaulting the Email alerts schedule to Do not send e-mails?

In that way I'll just hide the Notifications settings button for everyone but the Super Admin.

Jeff Alright then, how about defaulting the Email alerts schedule to Do not send e-mails?

We canot change deafult setting for that parameter. But that does not change anything. If you use plugin it will work on your logic disregarding that parameter.

Alright, I have created and installed a test plugin. It doesn't send any email, though :-(

<?php
defined('_JEXEC') or die('Restricted access');

require_once JPATH_ROOT . '/components/com_cobalt/api.php';

class plgMinttest extends JPlugin
{
    public function onActivity($actor, $target, $options, $record)
    {
        if($options['type'] == CEventsHelper::_RECORD_EDITED)
            {
                $to      = 'info_at_test.com';
                $subject = '$record edited';
                $message = '$record has been edited by $actor';
                $headers = 'From: info_at_test.com' . "\r\n" .
                    'Reply-To: info_at_test.com' . "\r\n" .
                    'X-Mailer: PHP/' . phpversion();

                mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers);
            }
    }

}

You have to consider that is user do not get notigication he will not get to this even either. For example you will not get event if you edit your own record.