Come together with the global Drupal community in Rotterdam, 28 Sept – 1 Oct 2026. Sessions, contribution, connection, and Early Bird savings until 8 June.On D6 the page admin/content/simplenews shows the number of subscribers at the time an issue was sent, which corresponds to the actual number of emails sent. This is clearly how it should work, showing a true record of past events.
On D7, these historic actuals are replaced by the current number of subscribers, so it looks as if every past issue of a given newsletter has been sent to the same number of people. This cannot be intended -- it looks like a regression from D6.
| Comment | File | Size | Author |
|---|---|---|---|
| #7 | add_sent_emails_column.patch | 2.39 KB | efpapado |
| #1 | Pasted_Image_3_3_13_4_59_PM.jpeg | 65.45 KB | graemian |
Comments
Comment #1
graemian commentedI'm having this same problem on D7. See screenshot attached.
Hopefully all old newsletters aren't sent to new subscribers when a new newsletter is sent? Will test and report back.
Comment #2
art is code commentedHello,
I notice the same problem in 7.x-1.1. One cannot keep track of the previous newsletters number of subscribers. I guess this is more of a feature request though than a bug report, or is it ?
Comment #3
miro_dietikerHm...
Unsent newsletter issues (or technically said, newsletters that are not yet in spool) have no subscriber count on its own. Instead their number comes from the category subscriber count. Repeating the number is just so you get an idea of what will happen if you hit the send button.
We should look into the UI numbers again, agree. Some progress display and total numbers sent would make sense here.
UX can be significantly improved.
Renaming title and switch to a feature request.
Related, possibly this issue is a duplicate of:
#875672: Wrong "Sent" numbers on "Created issues" list
(The issue more focusses on translation issues though...)
Comment #4
pendaco commentedWould love to see this changed as well.
But why not have both values; the sent subscriber count for every newsletter and the current amount of subscribers.
Example;
That way the existing column won't need any changes (perhaps for the column name perhaps), and the sent subscribers count per newsletter between brackets in the 'sent' column is similar to the D6 version.
Comment #5
berdirhttps://www.drupal.org/node/2413995 will fix this for 8.x, removing the 8.x release tag.
Comment #6
djpable commentedComment #7
efpapado commentedProposing a patch.
I added an extra column that shows the number of sent e-mails. It's not the exact thing (because some mails may have failed) but it can be used as an indicator (if the "sent" column shows that the sending was complete, then the number of subscribers at the sending time equals the number of sent emails)
Comment #8
jcnventuraThis is great! And it works, hence RTBC
Comment #9
broonJust needed that for an old project and I can still confirm that the patch works like a charm with the current version for Drupal 7. It's also showing recipients per language which is nice as this newsletter is sent in multiple languages and now we can directly see in the UI how many mails got out per language.