MT Mail Entry
MovableType comes with an mt-send-entry.cgi that allows your readers to email a link to an entry. I currently have this feature set up on Toni's Corner of the World with an Email to a friend link. You might prefer to send a user the actual entry (or an excerpt) instead of just a link. MT Mail Entry is a CGI script that will do that.
The mt-mail-entry.cgi allows you to specify the templates that are used to create the email message. The email may be sent using plain text, HTML, or both formats. When an email is sent, the entry ID, sender and recipient are logged in the activity log.
There is a fair amount of setting up to do but Stepan has provided clear and easy to follow instructions.
I liked the sound of this code so I downloaded it and have spent the last two days trying to figure out the templates for MT 3.2. It's finally working, and looking just like the weblog. You can see it in action on Loving You and Spitting Into the Wind . If anyone is interested in the template set, it's available here. My thanks to Stepan for going to all this trouble. Works great after you remove the breaks in the javascript. The script should read:
<script type="text/javascript" language="javascript">
<!--
function OpenEmail (c) {
window.open(c, 'email',
'width=480,height=480,scrollbars=yes,status=yes');
}
//-->
</script>
All the <br /> markup needs to be removed from the code on the developer's website.
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