Hi!
I'm asking here after I really surfed a lot of manuals and pages on the net.
It sounds so simple:
I want to send out a notification email everytime a new entry appears. Either to a hard-coded list of email addresses or to a list of users who subscribe on their own, doesn't really matter, any solution would be ok.
I just don't find it, where/how to enable it. I tried MTOS 4.12 and MTOS 4.21.
Any help? Please idiot proof as I really already "tried everything" (tm).
Thanks in advance, Steffen
Reported on Movable Type 4.2
Yes the documentation has hidden nuggets all over the place and you have to read just about everything to get the important stuff.
http://www.movabletype.org/documentation/appendices/release-notes.html
This is found under known issues:
The "Address Book" feature has been deprecated. Users wishing to re-enable this feature must add the following line to the end of their mt-config.cgi file: EnableAddressBook 1
You may find this script which I just wrote tonight to be of interest. Just put it in your movable type directory with a CSV file named notifications.csv and run it with Perl. It'll import each line of the CSV file as a notification record.
Unless something about MT Notifications has changed, they won't do what you want. Notifications will let you send an e-mail to a bunch of addresses about a new entry, but you must manually send it.
To automatically send e-mail when you publish a new entry, take a look at [MT-Notifier](http://everitz.com/mt/notifier/index.php).
Oh yeah, and the FeedBurner e-mail notifier is a good choice, too.