Update: The original post on adding a New Comment Email function written 3 minutes ago is below. I should have just deleted it, but it was a learning experience. Just ignore it. I discovered the "Email me Replies to this Post" radio button in the Post - Advanced Settings panel. I think I'll set it to "yes" and see what happens. Geez.
Update Two: There's definitely something squirrelly with the "Email me replies to this post" button. Nothing being sent and nothing in the email queue. Maybe a bug? Maybe this New Comment Mod is a helpful thing to have after all? Anyway, it works.
I need to talk about my experience migrating from DNN/nGallery/dotText to CS (or as I said on a dbvt.com temporary home page yesterday while the site was down, "it got nastier than the streets of Deadwood in August.") But first I want to talk about new comment emails that are missing in CSBlogs.
Or at least I think they are. I stepped through every line of the PostComment Submit() code and discovered a very sophisticated CS email provider with Queuing, subscriptions, censorship checking, user-based ASCII/HTML formatting, email XML templating and other cool stuff, but I sure as heck didn't find a MailNewCommentToAdmin() method. So I wrote one. Below is a sample email I now receive on new comments.
First add the line in bold to your FormComments.cs class.
BlogPostResults result = WeblogPosts.Add(entry, CurrentUser, out postID);
DBVT.Email.SendCommentToAdmin(entry); // DBVT Added to send comment to Admin
Then add this Email.cs class to your CommunityServerBlogs project. It is fairly well commented (for my code, that is.) We're passing the WeblogPost object, will create a SiteSettings object to obtain the SmtpServer and a second WeblogPost object to get the HREF for the parent post using BlogUrls.Instance().Post(parentpost) + "#" + post.PostID. This gives us a one-click link back to the comment and add a reply.
It was always important for me to use the existing object model of dotText and equally so now with CommunityServer. This Comment Email piece ain't it, but I depend too much on new comment emails and was desperate. I'll use the slick CS Email Provider services for the next mod.
