This is not a built-in feature of EE, I am afraid. As you have discovered, you can have EE notify specific mail addresses, but not whole usergroups.

That said, there is a third party extension that can automatically notify one of your mailinglists. This is not exactly the same thing as a member group, as you’d still need to add members to the mailinglist, but it should get you close to your goal.

Hi,

what I want to achieve is that every member on my webpage is notified when I publish a new weblog entry. I found out that there is a way to send a notification automatically to a list of mail adresses, but I don’t want to stick to that because my member list is a little to big for this field and I don’t want to update it every time a new member registers.

Is there a way to to this, possibly via mailing lists?

Best, Jan

Not automatically- at least not stock. (The mailing list approach isn’t stock either, as I recall.)

Now you could manually send one to your members via the ‘Communicate’ tab each time you publish. That page does allow you to select member group(s) and send to the entire group. It will also ‘batch’ the emails- which is why it’s tricky trying to do it automatically. You need to leave the window open and let it cycle through all emails that need to be sent- not necessarily feasible after submitting to ‘publish’ w/a large member list.

I thought I’d seen a third party module around that might do what you want, but I checked Solspace and Leevi’s collection and didn’t spot it- those were my best two guesses, so I could have been wrong on that one.

In any case- make sense what your options are? If you like, I could shift to ‘How to’ for brainstorming. But stock- the automatic ability isn’t there. Manually, it can be done ‘out of the box’ via ‘Communicate’.

I have merged the two threads. Please do not double post. That said, does that answer your question?

Thanks Ingmar, I didn’t find my posting on the page I bookmarked so I gave it another shot.

Your reply answers my question, but sadly not the way I hoped 😉 Would’nt it be great idea for a feature to make this possible. Two things can be done: automatically generate notifications and send mails to members. Just combine the two things 😉

Thank you very much. Jan

I think there are feature requests for this, you might want to find one and add your voice to it 😊

Hi folks,

I checked out the extension and it roughly does what I wanted. If anyone has experiences with this extension, I’d like to ask him or her several questions:

Anytime I post a new entry, I get the following error message:

Notice: Undefined variable: temp in /is/htdocs/wp1101275_WR8NCW6ZJX/www/system/cp/cp.communicate.php on line 1058 Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /is/htdocs/wp1101275_WR8NCW6ZJX/www/system/cp/cp.communicate.php:1058) in /is/htdocs/wp1101275_WR8NCW6ZJX/www/system/core/core.functions.php on line 296

The entry is submitted and the notification to. What’s wrong?

The notes I enter in the field for special mail text don’t appear in the mail. What may be wrong?

Is there a way to automatically send a link to the entry?

Best regards, Jan

Hi, Jan. I’m going to move this thread to the Extensions forum so that the community can help out.

I don’t think UpdateMail has been updated in quite some time - note the copyright date of 2006 on the page.

I tried it on a site shortly after it appeared, but found that it sent emails every time the post was saved – so each time I made small edits to the entry another email went out.

That wasn’t acceptable to me so I uninstalled it.

Seems I’m not alone in wanting this feature, and that it’s been in the feature requests queue.

Will this be a feature of EE 2.0?