Hey Alan,
I am really sorry for the delay of this reply as it is a weekend for us here.
I tested just now, it seems work fine for me.
What I did is publish a new post from backend, so system will generate a lot email notification ready to send to your site user.
The reason why need to load your site Easyblog page is because you using `send email via page load`, so when you load finish on your Easyblog page 1 time, it will send out the email to your site user included me.
You can take a look of my test post email notification screenshot at below.