Comments emailed to all authors?

[drexful]

Hello

I am using the latest version of s9y and would like to know if it is possible to email all authors when a comment has been made to one author's entries. I have a blog setup with one author who is allowed to post while the other authors are only allowed to post comments. All authors are already being emailed when a new entry is made, however, they also want to be notified when a comment was made on the entry. I am using the user self-registration and send entries via email plugins. Is there a plugin or function that can do this?


Thanks!

[yellowled]

they also want to be notified when a comment was made on the entry

They should use the checkbox "Subscribe to this entry" in the comment form. If it isn't available, you probably have not enabled comment subscription in your blog's settings. Check you blog configuration in the backend. (Sorry, I don't have backend access to an English blog right now so I don't know the exact name of the config option.)

YL

[drexful]

Thanks for the reply YL. I understand that they can subscribe to comments, but don't they have to make a comment first? I wish there were a way to do this automatically.

[yellowled]

Thanks for the reply YL. I understand that they can subscribe to comments, but don't they have to make a comment first? I wish there were a way to do this automatically.

You might be right, I think they do.

I guess you could set up a mailing list, make all people subsribe to that mailing list and email any comment notification to, yes, that mailing list. But that's a functionality s9y can only provide partially, you'll have to use an external service to set up said mailing list.

Maybe Garvin has another idea.

YL

[garvinhicking]

Hi!

Currently only the author of a blog will get a notification.

I'd actually recommend the authors to subscribe to the RSS comment feed, which will get them ALL comments.

Another way would be to setup some RSS to E-Mail script, that sends changes to the comment RSS feed to authors.

Of course a specific event plugin could also be created to listen on the sendComment event, and simply mail all authors, but that would involve PHP coding - such a plugin does not exist yet in the repository.

Regards,
Garvin