Flickr can now send email notification when someone leaves a comment on your photos, or when your contacts upload a new photo. Email notifications are probably the most wished feature by any Flickr users. By default, Email notification option is turned off, you can enable email notification from your account page. There are several options for receiving notification, you can either get notification as soon as it happens, or save up all the messages and get a digest email once a day, or once a week.
Previously, when someone leaves a comment on your old photos, it used to get buried under archives, completely defeating the purpose of having comments. Good thinking by Flickr, they should have added it a long time ago. Perhaps, they could even improve by send notifications via Yahoo Messenger.

wrote, on March 11th, 2007
Personally, I don’t use the comments via email option. I just go to the page if I want to. But I guess some people make LOTS of comments and would like to keep up with them. In that case, awesome tool.
btw, I always forget to uncheck the one down below on this site
Maybe put it above the submit button?
wrote, on March 11th, 2007
I think they are improving day by day in terms of features.
wrote, on March 12th, 2007
Well, I’ve enabled that option. Just that I don’t get any comments. But hey, everyone loves comments.
wrote, on March 12th, 2007
Andrew: I bet, you’re lying. Else… how can you make up with the comments?
wrote, on March 12th, 2007
I think they are following footsteps of PicassWeb in this matter..
wrote, on March 12th, 2007
ITs finally time they implemented this . You are right THilak , if the option was not implemented , the whole purpose of comment leaving was lost .
wrote, on March 13th, 2007
Should have dont this ages ago…but at last they finally did it..good news.