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There is a reason why DSpace only allows registered user accounts (i.e. logged in users) to sign up for email notifications -- the act of registering for an account also validates that your email address is valid & owned by you.
To allow anonymous users to subscribe to email updates is actually potentially problematic (unless you first have a step which first verifies a user's email address). We obviously would not want an anonymous user signing others up for emails notifications, or signing up a large mailing list for notifications (essentially "spamming" a list). There would need to be some form of validation that the person signing up for email notifications *owns* that email address. So, that's why it has been limited to persons who have a registered DSpace account.
While I'm not against allowing folks to sign up for notifications "anonymously" if we built in an email verification step, I would not be in favor of just allowing anyone to enter any email into DSpace for notifications.
As a sidenote, anonymous users are able to "subscribe" to updates via RSS feeds. There are third-party services allow you to receive RSS updates via email, so those would offer a very simple way for anonymous users to sign up to email notifications via existing DSpace RSS feeds.
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Dspace subscriptions aren't available for Anonymous users. They only can subscribe to one collection for receiving alerts if they have permission to submit new items, wich has no sense. The correct permission is READ permission, not ADD.
It can be fixed modifying the following methods at the following clasess:
@ org.dspace.eperson.Subscribe
pub...
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