Hey there. As you may recall (or not, depending on your memory of what I have sent and my memory of same), I wanted to get notified when people comment on my blog. Obviously, this is a theoretical exercise, as no one comments on my blog – as there is nothing really interesting on which to comment. But, like good computer geeks, let’s ignore all that.

As my blog (MT 2.6.4) lives on an NT system, and I am NOT running IIS, I was going to use Apache James as a mail server. But then I thought – wait, why don’t I just use my ISP’s (comcast) – SMTP server. It’s not like the volume of email would be very high.

So, I changed my mt.cfg to specify smtp and changed the SMTPServer to point at smtp.comcast.net (which is what my Outlook account users), remembered to install the Mail::Sendmail module, and ran mt.cgi.

Tried the basic “Notification on New Entry” – and didn’t receive any email notification. (I also downloaded something to get email notifications on comments, but I figured I would try and debug the simpler case).

Any thoughts? I don’t see any error messages, but I am probably not looking in the right places. Is this likely a configuration error or am I trying to do something impossible.

Thanks much! RB

PS – I hope YOU have set up the email ntoification on comments so that you see this .