Update (10/02/13): just a note to say email functionality is dependent on your system already having this configured, such as installing simplefeatures email notify plugin. Update (14/12/12): thanks to trurl and dalben for their assistance in testing the script.  Thanks to them the script is probably in a decent enough form to be used as-is by others.  If someone does use this script and find issues or can help add to it, please post your thoughts.  Latest version of the script attached to thi