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Is there any way to enter more than one e-mail address into this plugin? It says: (suggested: a mailing list). I know how to make an e-mail list in Thinderbird or gmail, but how do send e-mail to one address that mails it to a list?

Also, is there any way to get it to e-mail just the link to the new entry and not the entry itself?

Thanks for any help you can give me.

For a mailinglist, you must setup a mailinglist in/on your mailserver or use external services like YahooGroups.

You can just add multiple mail adresses by seperating them with a ",", but that is a much larger overhead than using a mailinglist.

And you can configure the plugin to only include a link, yes.

Regards,
Garvin

This is why Serendipity is the best...immediate feedback from a developer. Thanks so much Garvin. Can you tell me how to configure the plugin to only include a link? There's an option to "Mail link to article," but that also sends the article itself. Thanks!

Hi!

Glad you like Serendipity. )

If you enable the option "Mail link to article?" this should only send the URL within the mail, not the body. At least in my plugin version 1.43 of Serendipity 1.0-beta1 this is the case; if you've got an earlier version you can just fetch that single plugin file from a recent snapshot!

Best regards,
Garvin

Well, I upgraded to the exact versions you have, and I can't get it to send just the link and not the body text.

What I would really like it to do is send an e-mail that says: I have added a new entry to my blog. To view it, click on the following link."

I am sending this to family members, and I am sure that if it sends the entry itself, they will just read it in their e-mail program instead of going to the blog. I want them to go to the blog because then they will post comments there instead of just replying to my e-mail.

Can I edit the plugin to do this? If so, can you tell me how?

Hm, so you configure the plugin exactly with that option I referred to?

You can edit the plugin file plugins/serendipity_event_mailer/serendipity_event_mailer.php to insert custom text. I am currently a but short on time, maybe you could remind me at the end of the week to give you a tutorial on how to edit that file? Or you might want to try it out yourself; the plugin file is not that large and you might even have fun trying it!

Best regards,
Garvin

I am reviving an old thread here since I am having the exact same problem of not being able to option the mailer plugin to only send a link and NOT a link and text. Has anybody been able to successfully accomplish this feat

Hi!

Please describe your serendipity version and version number of the plugin.

Best regards,
Garvin

Garvin - our versions are:

S9Y: 1.0
Mailer: 1.43

John
blog.janeandjohn.org

Hi!

I found out that sadly the option was not properly implemented. I made a fix:

http://svn.berlios.de/viewcvs/*checkout ... mailer.php

You can download that file and just overwrite your "plugins/serendipity_event_mailer/serendipity_event_mailer.php" file with that one.

hTH,
Garvin

Works great after the update! Thanks for fixing it Garvin!

Garvin - is is possible to easily modify the code to send only as a bcc and not as a to? I really don't like for my mailing list to see all of the addresses.

Hi!

No, that's not easily possible. You might want to think about setting up a mailiunglist, and then you only need to enter ONE email address into the plugin, and your mailinglist takes care of the rest.

Best regards,
Garvin

Thanks so much Garvin. I'll look into a mailing list but I don't think my host provider (1&1) has that feature.

John

Hi!

You don't really need to have that on your own webspace; Yahoo and ecircle and others host free mailinglists!

Best regards,
Garvin