Get an email when someone adds a comments. Hooks right in to EE’s native commenting!

Mail After Comment

Emailed updates on your channel entries!

PURPOSE

This EE3/4/5/6 addon sends an email to an individual or member group after a new comment is created!

EE6 Compatible!

Just drop it in!

INSTALLATION

1. Copy entire folder to your system/user/addons folder.
2. On your EE backend, navigate to Developer > Addons (yoursite.com/admin.php?/cp/addons).
3. Scroll to Third Party Add-Ons.
4. Find Mail After Comment and click Install.
5. Add your settings, and enjoy!

SETTINGS

EMAIL

This utilizes EE’s native emailing by default.

MESSAGE_INFO

This Contains some basic your message information + Start: The starting line of the email message. Defaults to An entry has been updated! See below for information.

• End: The ending line of the email message. Defaults to Sent by Mail After Comment.

• Domain: The full domain name that you are using, without a trailing slash. Defaults to http://example.com, so definitely change this.

• From: This is the email your email notifications will come from. This is applied to all channels unless you override in that particular channel’s config. Defaults to [email protected], so definitely change this.

CHANNEL_CONFIG

This contains your channel information.

• Channel ID: The ID of the channel you would like to set MAE up (you can )

• Type: This can be set to email or member_group. Email is for individual email addresses that will be notified for a channel. Member Group will notify everyone who is a member of the assigned group.

• Email: If the type is set to email, this is the email addresses you will send notifications to. Email addresses should be separated by pipes (|), i.e. [email protected]|[email protected]|[email protected]

• Groups: If the type is set to member_group, this is the groups that will receive notifications re: this channel.

• From: This is the email your email notifications will come from. This will override the MESSAGE_INFO setting

LOGGING

By default, Mail After Comment will add data to your Developer logs, so you can track your emails.

TROUBLESHOOTING

1. Check the developer logs/MAC logs. Check to see if any EE mailer errors had occurred in there.
2. Check your EE Mail settings and send a test email.
3. Contact support for any additional assistance.

USE

Set it and forget it! Once you have all the information in your settings, it will automatically send the email anytime an entry in that particular channel is created or updated.

SUPPORT

We want to make sure you have what you need on this. Head to docs.triplenerdscore.net for help!

You can also submit issues on our Issue Tracker

ATTRIBUTIONS

ICON: The Mail After Comment icon is too awesome to be my own work. Icons made by surang from www.flaticon.com