I haven't played with it yet, but the 1.6 release (an alpha by the way) allows registered members to subscribe to different blog posts and comments in addition to getting an email note when one of their own posts gets a comment. Dunno about a general "send an email to joe-visitor when there's new stuff" though. It doesn't appear to be part of the latest and greatest. There is a groovy little gizmo you can tell your non-syndicatable visitors to use that'll hook them up: [url=http://www.botablog.com/]bot-a-blog[/url]. I've no idea how you go about using it, but it basically takes your feed and sends emails to whoever asks for them. Check the "Ality" skin for how to put it in your skin, or tweak this to match your skin's needs:

<div class="bSideItem">
	<p class="center">
	<a href="http://www.botablog.com/botthisblog.php?blog=<?php $Blog->disp( 'rdf_url', 'raw' ) ?>&amp;name=<?php $Blog->disp( 'shortname', 'raw' ) ?>" title="click and subscribe" class="bSideItem" target="_blank"><img src="img/botablog.gif" width="80" height="15" border="0" alt="click and subscribe" /></a>
	</p>
	</div>

You'll have to get the bot-a-blog button from their site, and if you're into it you can even call the image from their site. If you use this thing let us know how it works. I mean like do you as the blogger have to set up an account, or do you just tell your visitors to go sign up and they get the goods? Just curious is all.

wrabbit wrote:

I read a while back on a hack/new feature that would allow people to enter their email and get email notifications on new blog entries. Is this still going to be implemented in a new version? Any idea when?

Has this been implemented or can this be done? I am a new user and before I install I would like to know if this feature is available.
Thanks

The next release will have "Subscriptions", which is what you want: a user can subscribe to blog posts/comments and will get notified by email.

It's included already in the 1.6-Alpha "release".

Thnaks it works. What script handles what is contained in the email that's sent? I want to have the email not include the comments or blog but just the link?
Thanks

There are methods send_email_notifications() for the Item and Comment class, as far as I know.

You would have to change those.