MT Email notification
Although there are no real readers of this blog, and even fewer commenters, I thought that email notification of comments would be nice - if only as a reminder to clean up the spam comments (although Blacklist is a godsend).
So I downloaded sub-to-com, which enables both email notification of new comments and to allow commenters to subscribe to that email notification as well.
Of course, it didn't work. The key problems were:
1) I hadn't set up the email server configuration
Fixing this was a pretty simple matter of editing the mt.cfg file to have:
MailTransfer smtp
SMTPServer
2) Well, there was the small problem of not having an SMTP server
I didn't want to run IIS and being on NT that didn't leave me too many options. I was about to try and install an email program, but then I realized I could try using my ISP's SMTP server.
3) But that didn't seem to work
Ah, I hadn't set up an email address for the Blog's author. I configured that (by clicking on the user name) and then everything seemed to work. Although more testing is undoubtedly needed.