email notification on new entry

[redshark]

Hi you all,

I'm using Serendipity for one week now and it perfectly suits my needs. Except for one point:
I would like to have the opportunity for my visitors to subscribe to the log and receive an e-mail everytime a new entry is placed on the board.

I looked into the plugins but I couldn't find one of those.

Does anybody knows a contribution for this problem?

Thnx!

[garvinhicking]

The reason this is not easily possible is because that's what RSS feeds are for; this way people can subscribe themselves to your blog.

There is a "mail entry" plugin, which mails a new entry to a special email address. You can create a mailinglist then to which you send those entries, and the mailinglist forwards your entries to all other subscribers then. You can hook a link to a mailman mailinglist into the sidebar so that people can subscribe here.

Sending mails is not a good idea to be done within PHP space, so there will not probably be such a plugin which sends out mails to more than one person, as a mailinglist is what you want to do then.

Generally I advise that people should get used to RSS feeds. There are even services which send RSS feeds via Email, maybe you can google them up.

Regards,
Garvin