I've just migrated my blog from WordPress to Drupal 4.7, and am working on replicating some of the functionality I had under WP. One of the more powerful features was provided by the "Subscribe to Comments" plugin, which allowed people who commented on my blog to easily set up email notifications of follow-up comments.

I tried installing Subscriptions.module, but it appears to provide this feature only for members (account-holders) in an instance of Drupal. Anonymous users have no way to provide their email address. Any ideas on how to get Subscriptions working with anonymous users?

I also looked at Notify.module, but that's too much of a shotgun approach to be useful for this purpose.

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dziemecki’s picture

dziemecki commented
Status: Active » Closed (works as designed)

I'm using the user's account information to drive this process. If they don't have an account, I don't have a way to make this work. Setting up a new way to handle non-members is a bit more of a re-write than I currently have time for, and I'm not sure it'll ever be worth the effort.

My suggestion is to make the membership sign-up process easier (auto-approved, few fields required, etc.).

Good luck.

dz

Christoph C. Cemper’s picture

Christoph C. Cemper commented

well - I agree that this is a workaround, but does not address the need to mail anon users..

it WILL be worth the effort, because people HATE signup at every blog and site they get to...

and I don't get it - NOBODY yet implemented the anon mail notification? I browsed several hours around, but no fix yet...

Christoph C. Cemper’s picture

Christoph C. Cemper commented
Title: Allowing Anonymous subscriptions? » New module to allow Anonymous subscriptions?

see http://drupal.org/node/79980 for a new module to solve this hassle