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Is there a way for a member to request to be notified when new entries are made to a specific channel?

Native functionality or add-on would be fine. I just can’t seem to find any existing way to do what seems to me a pretty basic function.

For clarification, here’s an idea of how I envision it working (roughly).

1. User visits channel. (A blog in this case)
2. User checks a box or clicks a link to “subscribe” to the channel (blog).
3. When blog admin/author adds a new post to the blog, subscribed members are notified by email of the new post.

If this is something really obvious, feel free to humiliate me publicly.

Thanks,
PJ

I think you could do exactly what you’re looking for with the Postmaster add-on: http://devot-ee.com/add-ons/postmaster

Look at the paragraph titled Channel Entries:
“Send emails automatically when channel entries are created or edited. Postmaster’s parcels are used specify a channel, status, member group, categories, and/or custom conditional(s).”

You would probably need to create a new member group for someone subscribing to the channel and then move them into it on subscription.