If you want to have QuestionPulse send you notifications when new, relevant questions are found, you have currently have two options: Email Notifications and Push Notifications. Below is an overview of a few services you can utilize to add extended functionality to QuestionPulse, and each of the options listed have a dedicated section with information on how to get registered with these services and get the information you need to integrate QuestionPulse with them.
Email Notifications
When Email Notifications are configured, QuestionPulse can send you a breakdown of what questions were found, the link to these questions (so you can answer the question from anywhere), what keywords were used when finding the questions, and when the questions were found. There are many free and low-cost SMTP email services on the market, but we've found the following to provide quality services that are generally more than sufficient with the free tier. However, any other SMTP service should work should you prefer a different provider.
Free Plan has a generous sending limit of 100 emails per day, which should be more than sufficient when using QuestionPulse.
Cons:
Seems to have intermittent deliverability issues when sending emails to addresses powered by Microsoft Exchange Server (MS Exchange). This inclues self-hosted emails powered by GoDaddy, Hostgator and similar services. It can also cause issues when sending email alerts to @outlook.com, @hotmail.com, or @msn.com email addresses. Keep this in mind if using Elsatic Emal SMTP services while sending to a custom email domain or one of the previously mentioned free email services. If your target email address set to receive alerts uses MS Exchange and you don't receive email alerts when all settings are configured properly (as covered in the Elastic Email settings overview) and the alerts aren't at least arriving in spambox, MS Exchange's filters may be blocking these emails upon receiption.
Push Notifications
The second option is Push Notifications, where QuestionPulse can alert your devices (Windows, Android, and iOS) when new questions are found so you can stay on top of answering new questions as quickly as possibe.
