Mailinglist or newsletter

By roma on 10 Mar 2005 at 21:49 UTC

i would like to know, is there is already a malinglist or newsletter module?!

if not i would like to know, where i can get a smiilar modul. The list may contains non-user beside the regisret user to the system. Like an newsletter with a html featured-like-mail.

/roma

Comments

Choices

robert castelo commented 10 March 2005 at 22:19

There are a few choices, depending on what you want to do, one of these modules might be what you are looking for:

ezmlm
http://drupal.org/project/ezmlm

Listhandler
http://drupal.org/project/listhandler

Mail
http://drupal.org/node/10227

MassMailer
http://drupal.org/node/15302

Notify
http://drupal.org/project/notify

Subscriptions:
http://drupal.org/project/subscriptions

Also, I'm working on an email newsletter module
http://www.cortextcommunications.com/development/newsletter

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To send to subscripers

roma commented 11 March 2005 at 14:28

I would like to send html-based mails (newsletter) to visitors who fill in a subscriptions form on my page.

Can you tell me more specific what of those u mention, i should be working on (or use) to my description?

thanks
/roma

Mass Mailer

robert castelo commented 19 March 2005 at 02:03

I haven't tried all of the above mentioned modules, so can't tell you which do HTML email or not.

Mass Mailer is a Drupal front end for PHPList, which I know does send HTML email, so that's one you should definetly try.

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I like the sound of your one

nathanwastaken commented 19 March 2005 at 02:52

I had a look around your enewsletter project, and I think this will be a good alternative solution to the above mentioned modules.

Does your newsletter module send mail to registered users only, or can individuals sign up for the newsletter without signing up for the site.

this is what i am interested in, and th eonly one above that allows sending to non registered users in massmailer and that only works on servers that have shell_exec() enabled. I am on a shared server and this will not work for me, so I am looking for something different. Is thee a working version I can test?

Sign Up

robert castelo commented 19 March 2005 at 12:26

eNewsletter module uses the registration system built into Drupal, which is very flexible. The minimum required for registration is a Username and email address.

Is there a different way you would like to sign up subscribers?

The module is still in active development, and you can follow progress on the forum:

http://www.cortextcommunications.com/forum/47

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eNewsletter

rbrooks00 commented 19 March 2005 at 18:57

Robert, I checked out your website and that module looks very interesting. I was wondering if you might be able to give us sort of a run down of where you are with it and what you have planned? I tried piecing it together from posts in your forum, but figured it would be more efficient to just ask.

Is it basically a node which contains your news letter and then it emails the news letter to users, or a link to it?

Features & Status

robert castelo commented 19 March 2005 at 19:30

There's a feature list with progress marked here:

http://www.cortextcommunications.com/development/newsletter/features

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Great!

rbrooks00 commented 19 March 2005 at 19:47

Robert, that looks like a really great module, I'll be eagerly anticipating the release :)

That appears to have all of the features I was looking for and it handles the problem of anonymous users by quickly registering them with the site.

wow. this is exactly what

chris Albon@www.emodo.com commented 10 June 2005 at 15:14

wow. this is exactly what drupal should have as a core component in 5.0.

Keep up the great work!

Component(s)

robert castelo commented 10 June 2005 at 16:37

Thanks for the encouragement Chris.

At the moment I'm working to split up my module into multiple component modules, such as publications.module (specify content), schedule.module (when to send), subscribers.module (who to send to), ect.

These components will allow other developers to quickly create new modules, say for instance an automated PDF newsletter publishing module.

Who knows, some of these components may one day even make their way into Drupal core ;-)

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Is this module also the one

holger commented 21 June 2005 at 20:48

Is this module also the one that drupal.org is using for drupal newsletter?

greetings from germany, holger

ebec.Net ! Blog http://www.ebec.net . . . Drupal Experience http://cms.stnetwork.de

No

robert castelo commented 21 June 2005 at 22:56

I think drupal.org is using mailman.module.

Once my eNewsletter.module is released I'll try and persuade them to use it for the Drupal newsletter.

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sign up with email address only?

jivyb commented 21 October 2005 at 00:22

Hi. Would this be a possible option to set from the admin? In other words, no registration required to get the newsletter? At least as an option the admin can select. This would be a great option, I think.

a subscribe permission is included

noid commented 21 October 2005 at 04:34

Tested the module, and a subscribe permission is included (thus for anonymous users). Although the permissions weren't working when I tested it.

What about providing remote control of the newsletter

oc commented 10 June 2005 at 10:54

hi Robert --
Do you know if any of the enewsletter tools, including your own, have a provision that allows them to be controlled remotely?
Basically, this would allow the lists to be integrated more easily with other applications, such as desktop applications, that do not have direct access to the sql tables or user database of Drupal.

If you look at upcoming.org they are using REST as a protocol to allow remote control of their site. See:
http://upcoming.org/services/api/

I can imagine a similar API could be implemented for control of enewsletters, which would be very powerful. As there are many desktop database applications (like the one we have developed) that would be able to use this so that you could control subs and unsubs to email newsletters from the desktop.

Here are some possible REST "methods":

Methods

list
list.add [HTTP POST] (add a new list, need to include admin email and password, name of list, etc)
list.delete [HTTP POST] (delete existing list)
list.getinfo [HTTP GET] (returns # of subscribers, traffic, admin name)
list.masssubscribe [HTTP POST] (bulk subscribe)
list.massunsubscribe [HTTP POST] (bulk unsubscribe)
list.clear [HTTP POST] (delete all subscribers)
list.getbounces [HTTP POST] (retrieve list of suspect emails)
list.purgebounces [HTTP POST] (force the removal of some or all suspect emails)
list.changeemail [HTTP POST] (update the email address of a subscriber)

subscriber
subscriber.subscribe [HTTP POST] (add a new subscriber if unique)
subscriber.unsubscribe [HTTP POST] (delete existing subscriber)
subscriber.setdigest [HTTP POST] (set mode to digest for subscriber )
subscriber.setnodigest [HTTP POST] (set mode to normal for subscriber )
subscriber.search [HTTP GET] (get list of subscribers matching substring)
subscriber.setname [HTTP POST] (set the first and last name for a subscriber)
subscriber.getname [HTTP GET] (get the first and last name for a subscriber)

let me know what you think of this.
-rich

Organizers' Collaborative -- Free Software for Activist Groups
http://organizerscollaborative.org and http://organizersdb.org

Curious

robert castelo commented 10 June 2005 at 13:08

I'd becurious to know what desktop applications support this?

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"Scalable" feature when available?

noid commented 10 September 2005 at 19:37

Hi Robert,

Just want to ask if the "scalability" feature will be available soon. :) Am one of those using a limited server/host (200 emails per hour), and am looking forward to use your newsletter as soon as this feature is working. :)

Thanks and keep up the great job!

Staggered Send Out

robert castelo commented 10 September 2005 at 22:35

Staggered send out is available now - i.e. it can send x number of messages every cron run.

What I meant by "scalable" is how well it can handle very large numbers of email, for admins with the resources to send out hundreds of thousands of emails. This is still something I'm working on.

By the way, I've added enewsletter to contrib cvs, and created a project for it on drupal.org - I broke a few things on it recently when I re-organised the code, so it's not ready for use, but I'll be fixing it in the next few days

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Glad I asked. Thanks.

noid commented 10 September 2005 at 23:50

Oic. Thanks for the prompt reply, Robert!

It's a good thing I asked -- now I know I can use your module after assuming otherwise. :)

So I will have to wait a few days? Will just check in on the module every now and then to see if it's ready for use. :)

New Version

robert castelo commented 27 September 2005 at 13:40

I spent the weekend updating this a bit, there's a new version available in contrib cvs:

http://drupal.org/project/enewsletter

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Question re files/database to upload

noid commented 1 October 2005 at 15:51

Hey Robert,

Posted a question here re which files and database to upload:

http://drupal.org/node/32771

Thanks and keep up the great job! :)

Easier Downloads

robert castelo commented 28 October 2005 at 00:33

I've updated the eNewsletter project page to make it easier to download all the components from one page.

http://drupal.org/project/enewsletter

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Hi Robert and all,

zulfinho commented 3 February 2006 at 16:24

Hi Robert and all,

I'm trying out eNewsletter. I've managed to upload the modules and run the SQL script. Unfortunately, when I open the administer > module, it just went blank. Then I try to backtrack what I did. After uploading each module, I try to access the administer > modules.
The bounced_email, enewsletter, html2txt, identity_hash, publication and schedule can be uploaded without causin the error. But after I uploaded subscribed, it gave this message:

Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 8388608 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 46080 bytes) in /home/zdharmaw/public_html/drupal/themes/friendselectric/page.tpl.php on line 87

Any suggestions?

Thanks,

Zulfikar

Hosting

robert castelo commented 10 February 2006 at 03:19

Tell your hosting provider about the problem, hopefully they will alocate your account more memory.

Also, you can remove any modules that you will never use, this page loads in all modules, even if they are not enabled.

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Rest API

oc commented 8 November 2005 at 11:07

Hi Robert --
I have implemented some of this functionality in our Desktop nonprofit database for Windows. You can take a look at the beta at:
http://organizenow.net/odb/odbinstall-1.0beta9.exe
which is pretty mature. Just click new record, and then look at the email/web tab. You will see some buttons relating to email control.
Once you define the html strings for subscribe, unsubscribe, and getinfo page for up to 4 lists (these are in settings), then you can click a button to cause these html actions to take place -- and the email address of the currently open contact will be passed as an argument in the html string. We don't do POST yet, but I can modify the app to use that...

It would be amazing if your module could support at least
subscribe
unsubscribe
get info
because then I could integrate with that, and users of ODB (about 400 nonprofits) would be encouraged to use your enewsletter module (I would actively encourage them).

-rich
www.oc-tech.org (for screenshots)

Organizers' Collaborative -- Free Software for Activist Groups
http://organizerscollaborative.org and http://organizersdb.org

just curious... is

oc commented 10 January 2006 at 12:16

just curious...
is drupal.org using "simplenews" instead of mailman.module?

I guess that simplenews does a lot of what this newsletter module does. Can you explain the differences in terms of:

a) granularity: can I use either simplenews or the mailing list module here to have taxonomies attached to individual articles in a newsletter (as opposed to the entire newsletter)

b) story links: is this enewsletter module good at creating a newsletter that consists of just teaser content and links back to the main drupal site where the news is stored? Is there a way that the enewsletter could default to "teaser" but then the user could go into preferences and elect to get the entire body of each "story" instead?

c) user DB. Does this enewsletter store the subscribers list separately from the Drupal user database or in the same DB table? Do updates to the email address of a user automatically propagate to the newsletters that a user is subscribed to?

thanks in advance for help with this.

-rich

Info

robert castelo commented 10 January 2006 at 12:52

is drupal.org using "simplenews" instead of mailman.module?

Simplenews I think

story links: is this enewsletter module good at creating a newsletter that consists of just teaser content and links back to the main drupal site where the news is stored? Is there a way that the enewsletter could default to "teaser" but then the user could go into preferences and elect to get the entire body of each "story" instead?

Yes, eNewsletter automatically sends teasers. No option to include whole body, but could be added in future

user DB. Does this enewsletter store the subscribers list separately from the Drupal user database or in the same DB table? Do updates to the email address of a user automatically propagate to the newsletters that a user is subscribed to?

Yes, eNewsletter uses the user table for all it's data. It has a seperarte table to keep track of which users (uid) have subscribed to which newsletter.

More info here if you're interested:

http://www.cortextcommunications.com/development/newsletter/features

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to use enewsletter?

oc commented 11 January 2006 at 20:17

Robert --
I got your communications regarding the enewsletter module... and though I think it is the best solution, it appears to have a flaw in that it is not quite done. So it appears to be very risky for me to use that on my site, as I have no idea which of the not-completed features will actually get added and debugged in a reasonable time frame.

It would be very good if some of the planned features could be shelved or recategorized as "open for sponsorship". And if the really important core features that most organizations will really want could then be completed and tested. If that were done a set of relatively stable documentation could be issued and sites like mine could start using it. I am referring to the "todo" list:

http://www.cortextcommunications.com/taxonomy/term/101

We had a similar problem with our software and eventually decided to focus on some core features that would be part of a 1.0 release, in order to make it easier for groups to adopt after we reached that milestone. details at www.organizenow.net/odb/relnotes.html

I would be happy to work with you in identifying which are the core features groups are likely to want, and also in the issue of the API that we discussed on another thread.

Please send me a phone # at rich -at- oc-tech -dot- org and we can go from there...

-rich
Organizers' Collaborative

Hi Robert, I just can't get

atulrd commented 27 August 2007 at 22:11

Hi Robert,
I just can't get this module to show up in Module Adminstration page.
I copied all those related downloaded files
ran that combined file of SQL - got those tables created.
What more should I check ?

atul
atulrd@hotmail.com

Simplenews

oc commented 11 January 2006 at 20:17

Can someone involved in Simplenews also comment?
-rich

enewsletter problem

mr_kyle commented 5 May 2006 at 13:36

i've installed enews & all the extra modules, everything seems ok on the surface (am yet to test sending) however now my user account "register" page is blank. when i disable the enews module it is fine.

any ideas?

ENewletter VS Simplenews

lanesharon commented 8 May 2006 at 18:33

As the comment above stated, it seems quite incomplete. When I look at CVS the last entry was made 3 months ago - before 4.7 RC's and final. Personally, I wouldn't trust it. I am using the simplenews contribution and currently looking for a way to get all members signed up during registration for a base newletter. It seems to work okay with 4.7

Take Care, Sharon