Title: Optional post-email notification
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Optional post-email notification

 *  [whimsy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/whimsy/)
 * (@whimsy)
 * [21 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/optional-post-email-notification/)
 * I’ve found two different plug-ins that will send an email to some sort of notification
   list. They both appear to send the email out when the post status changes to “
   publish”, sending an email out for every post.
    What I really want is a notification
   function like I had on Movable Type (yes, I’m another new “convert” here.) That
   is, I want to manually click on the “notify” button before anything gets sent
   out, since I don’t want to send notifications for every post. I also liked the
   option to put an additional note into the email, but I confess I seldom used 
   it. This seems like a larger hack into the WP source than just a plug-in, but
   I really haven’t looked enough to see if it is doable as a simple plug-in. Does
   anybody know if this has been done, or could easily be done?

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 *  Thread Starter [whimsy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/whimsy/)
 * (@whimsy)
 * [21 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/optional-post-email-notification/#post-67095)
 * Beniam, I can manage some of the things you ask for on my server. I do it by 
   using a MailMan mailing list, along with the post2email plug-in.
    My web host(
   123ehost.com) lets me have a few mailing lists with the account, and it will 
   do most of what you want. Just set up post2email to go to the mailing list, and
   then MailMan lets people subscribe/unsubscribe themselves. MailMan also does 
   some digest stuff, but I’m not sure it is what you want. MailMan definately lets
   you write intro text. If your blog isn’t hosted somewhere that gives you MailMan
   access, you may be able to use some other public mailing list server with MailMan
   or an alternative mailing list package. Best of luck to you!

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