server/AyaNova/models/GlobalBizSettings.cs

@@ -16,13 +16,14 @@ namespace AyaNova.Models
         //this is precautionarily added for non latinate languages where it could be an issue
         public bool SearchCaseSensitiveOnly { get; set; }
 
-        public bool NotificationSystemActive { get; set; }
+       // public bool NotificationSystemActive { get; set; }
 
         public GlobalBizSettings()
         {
             Id = 1;//always 1  
             SearchCaseSensitiveOnly = false;
-            NotificationSystemActive = true;
+        //NO, notification system is *always* active, if they don't want email delivery that's an OPS setting    NotificationSystemActive = true;
+        //keeping this in case I forget and try to re-implement
         }
     }
 }

server/AyaNova/models/GlobalOpsNotificationSettings.cs

@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ namespace AyaNova.Models
     {
         public long Id { get; set; }//this is always 1 as there is only ever one single global Ops object
         public uint Concurrency { get; set; }
-        public bool Active { get; set; }
+        public bool SmtpDeliveryActive { get; set; }
         public string SmtpServerAddress { get; set; }
         public string SmtpAccount { get; set; }
         public string SmtpPassword { get; set; }
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ namespace AyaNova.Models
 
         public GlobalOpsNotificationSettings()
         {
-            Active = true;
+            SmtpDeliveryActive = true;
             Id = 1;
             SmtpServerAddress="mail.example.com";
             SmtpAccount="notifydeliverfromaccount@example.com";