I have been asked if the board will send email when a post is made, like the old one did? To be honest I didn't know the old one did

However, I did implement every board as a separate RSS Feed thus your RSS readers can deliver the messages to your inbox and even keep them straight
Also their is a 'Watch this topic and receive notifications of activity via e-mail?" check box on all new topics started if that helps.
NOTE: This only works on new topics not replys to topics.
Scott