Email notification

[peter0379]

We've set up this wonderful blog to use as method of internal communication for a small organization. I was wondering if it's possible to set up the blog so that when there is a new post to the blog, everyone is notified.

I understand there is notifications available for when comments are posted to your own entry - however, I'm hoping there is an option that can be used to notify of global postings to the blog itself.

Hope this makes sense, and hope to hear back from someone soon!

Kind regards,

Peter

[garvinhicking]

There are two ways to achieve this:

1. Use the RSS Feeds and a RSS client to get notified of changes. Basically that is what RSS was also invented for.

2. You can also use the serendipity_event_mailentry plugin, that will mail new entries to an email address. This is thought in a way that you setup a mailing list with all subscribers/interested people and then configure the plugin to send the email to that mailinglist address. Free mailinglists can be setup on many webpages like Yahoo or Domeus...

HTH,
Garvin

[Davy]

Hi!

I only can find a plugin that allows people to mail an entry to 'a friend'. But is there also a plugin/hack for something that is not seen by my visitors?

[garvinhicking]

Hi!

Hi!

I only can find a plugin that allows people to mail an entry to 'a friend'. But is there also a plugin/hack for something that is not seen by my visitors?

That's the wrong plugin. Check serendipity_event_mailentry, it's bundled in Serendipity and called "Send entries via E-Mail".

Best regards,
Garvin

[dcigary]

If you have access to cron on your server, see here for my description of how I set this up.

Basically, using rss2email to monitor the RSS feed and send email to a pre-defined list. I modified rss2email to only note that something had been updated, not sending the entire text of the post.

Anyhow, it works well for a hack, and if you want any more info on how I did it just let me know.