Tip: Enabling tracking changes by email.

If you want to keep track of what's going on in a forum, continually going back to a page in your web browser to see what's changed isn't the most efficient way to do it. Probably the best way, if you use an RSS reader, is to subscribe to the RSS feeds that are automatically created for every forum (and there are even feeds for each individual page if you want). You can do this via the "Track Changes" link at the bottom right of each forum page.

The "Track Changes" also offers you the choice of being notified of changes by email. However, out of the box, this option isn't available, as the application doesn't know how to send mail from your particular system. To tell it, the site administrator has to go into the site's administration area. From there, visit the "Notification" page, and fill in information about your SMTP mail server, and web and email addresses. The email options on the "Track Changes" pages will then be available.