Published 'future' posts not sent by plugin Subscribe 2

[moxie]

Not quit sure this is the right place for this, but it was suggested by the author of the Subscribe2 plugin to post it here.

I'm using the ​http://birdhouse.org/software/futurepost plugin to publish posts with a future date immediately because it's a website for a festival in which the publish date for each event is also the actual date for that event. This way I could use queries to show future and past events by checking the current date: ​http://www.kwartiermakersfestival-mb.nl/

But the subscribe2 plugin doesn't send notifications for those published posts with a future timestamp, although - according to the author - it should:

(the author...)
The plugin you are using removed the future post hook and pushes future posts through wp_publish_post() instead.
This is a core WordPress function that changes the status of the post to ‘publish’ and calls the transition function wp_transition_post_status().
This function in turn should call the transition function future_to_publish which means that Subscribe2 should work!
The only thing I can figure it may be is in the wp_publish_post() function. There are two lines as follows:

$wpdb->update( $wpdb->posts, array( 'post_status' => 'publish' ), array( 'ID' => $post_id ) );
$old_status = $post->post_status;

I think these need to be swapped around and it may then work. If it does please let me know and I’ll submit a trac ticket.
(... end reply of author).

His suggestion doesn't work. Any idea why?

[thee17]

Sounds like a plugin support issue.