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2008/5/23 2:58:32
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Bullet-proof email newsletter moduleI need to set up an email newsletter for my work site, and could use some advice on an email newsletter module. I'm looking for something that can:
* Handle a mailing list with several thousand users. * Supports html email. * Is in full release status and actively maintained. Ideally, it would allow people to manage their own subscription via a block. Is there anything out there? Or do I gotta try and write one? Thanks |
  
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2008/5/23 4:04:14
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Re: Bullet-proof email newsletter moduleI asked about the same earlier this week. My two cents:
1 - XMail is still in alpha. You can help on it, or... 2 - Look for a Xoops-to-PHPList connector, a simple but effective solution, developed by someone of Xoops italy. I reviewed the code and it probably works, but the code can be shorter. I can't review it at this moment, but i think i'll go back to it in less than a month. |
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2008/5/23 14:45:26
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Re: Bullet-proof email newsletter moduleA full Bullet-proof email newsletter module is really a must for impress oe any other good CMS (IMHO)
I´d love to hear some news from any option spotted above. |
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2008/5/23 17:09:51
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Re: Bullet-proof email newsletter moduleI actually brought something up the other day with Marcan about mailing lists, here is snippet from an E-mail I sent with details of what I'd like to see.
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And something similar I mentioned on MSN. Quote:
This could also be extended to allow multiple mailing lists. But the question is should this be something in the core, or should it be left for a module? Maybe the basics could be in the core, with a hook so that it could be extended with a module? |
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2008/5/23 22:43:00
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Re: Bullet-proof email newsletter moduleCommunications is a core part of community sites, so I agree having strong email functionality within Impress itself would be useful.
I thought that the existing email to users functionality also had some serious limitations - something about only being able to send 100 emails at a time? Is that true and/or fixable? |
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2008/5/23 23:14:52
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Re: Bullet-proof email newsletter moduleThe problems I always faced was it timing out when sending messages to thousands of users, I ended up using XMail (I think) to get around this as it allowed you to send it smaller amounts.
I remember back on X it was once explained this was more an issue with php and it's memory than the actual script side, how true that is I'm not sure it seems a logical answer though, but that was a long time ago when I last asked. If it is in fact an issue with php or Apache, then I'd love to see some kind of Cron introduction, so you could set when to send the mails and they would be queued with the cron sending batchs ever minute or how ever often you set it. Even if it isn't a cron option would still be cool, this would allow you schedule mailers in php/MySQL and then the cron would do the rest the next day, week or month. I'm not sure if, or how much work has been done on the mailing side. |
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2008/5/24 7:38:23
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Re: Bullet-proof email newsletter moduleIf I remember correctly, SmartMail did almost exactly what you are talking about Tom. It is not fully functional and did not work for me completely but it does have potential.
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2008/5/24 15:00:30
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Re: Bullet-proof email newsletter moduleI'l have to look at the code, perhaps we could get this working if it's a viable solution, or use one of the other modules as a base, after all there is no point in reinventing that wheel.
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2008/5/26 12:44:06
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Re: Bullet-proof email newsletter moduleQuote:
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