From now on, Simplenews 4.6 will no longer be updated/changed, unless security issues come up of course.

Simplenews HEAD has been made fully compliant with Drupal HEAD, and is now ready to be used in Drupal 4.7. A few bugs were also fixed, and some code cleanup was done. Furthermore, Simplenews HEAD (*not* 4.6) has some nice new features.

Remember that Simplenews HEAD will not work with Drupal 4.6 and vice versa.This was already the case, but now it will really, really not work anymore... If you want to take advantage of the new features, upgrade to Drupal HEAD, or wait until Drupal 4.7 comes out and upgrade then.

This is a summary of the new features:

  • Cron throttle: set the number of newsletters sent per cron run. Can help to prevent some of the reported "multiple copies received" problems (puzzle piece 1)
  • Initial send time can now be disabled, newsletters will only be sent by cron. Can help to prevent some of the reported "multiple copies received" problems (puzzle piece 2)
  • Test e-mail address override: can be enabled/disabled. Newsletter creator can override the address
  • Multiple test e-mail addresses possible: you can now supply a comma-separated list of test addresses
  • Drupal 4.7 collapsible forms
  • Nicer watchdog messages

Translation status:

  • German
  • Danish
  • Hungarian

Recommendation:
Apparantly, most of the "multiple copies received" problems happen when poormanscron is used. I haven't figured out why this happens, so for the time being, I wouldn't recommend using both modules together...

Comments

DriesK’s picture

DriesK commented

A lot of work is being put in simplenews recently. Just to keep you informed, this is a short list of some more changes in simplenews HEAD. To be continued.

  • Newsletter name displayed in e-mail subject, e.g.: [Drupal newsletters] Newsletter for August, 2005
  • added permission: 'subscribe to newsletters'
  • sender information now per newsletter + 1 general address for confirmation e-mails
  • set standard sending format to plain
  • cron throttle: added ‘unlimited’
  • removed ‘created new term/vocab’ messages upon module activation (only the messaged of course)
  • improved UI consistency (use of ‘newsletter’ instead of ‘type’, and other)
  • added newsletter-specific setting: hyperlink conversion to text (appended list or inline)
  • full support for relative urls
  • correct utf-8 e-mail headers
  • include node title in e-mail body
  • improved html2txt conversion (more tags supported, better text markup)
  • fixed pagers in settings pages: separate count-queries added
  • changed standard vocabulary name to "newsletter"
  • partial cleanup settings pages (to be continued)
jakeg’s picture

jakeg commented

great work!

can you please add the fact that simplenews cvs won't work with 4.6 to the description on the main project page? will save a lot of wasted effort with individuals trying to get it to work, getting errors etc

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alexandreracine commented

The French translation is under way!

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spiderman
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Location Halifax, NS
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Title: Simplenews ready for 4.7 & new features » Simplenews ready for 4.7 -> Forms API?

i believe i'm working with the latest simplenews code from CVS, and unfortunately, it doesn't yet seem that it's ready for 4.7. i'm still seeing lots of form_ function problems, and it seems that little or no effort has yet been made to update this module to the new Forms API.

i've spent a chunk of this evening working on a bunch of new code (thanks much to the formupdater.module), but it will still be a bit before i have a working patch, i think. just wanted to make sure i'm not missing some work someone's already done on this.. updates?

DriesK’s picture

DriesK commented

I'm working on this. Especially, the dynamically generated block forms are a challenge. Expect a working version by the end of this week.

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alexis commented

I'm seriously considering Simplenews in one new site which will use 4.7, do you have plans of including some kind of tracking feature to know if your newsletters were opened?

Civicspace is planning something like this:

Mass Mailing – Our current solution allows you to create multiple mailinglists, manage subscribers, and send thousands of emails at a time. Our improved version due in Q2 will support bounce tracking, open rates, tokens, and HTML templates.

But I'm not sure if that could be integrated as a module to Drupal 4.7.

DriesK’s picture

DriesK commented
Title: Simplenews ready for 4.7 -> Forms API? » Simplenews ready for 4.7 -> status.

Simplenews now works with the new forms api.

DriesK’s picture

DriesK commented

Just a small extra comment: it all works, but the conversion isn't finished yet as such: I still have to implement the form execute model. When that'll be finished, the code will look much cleaner. But for now, I'd appreciate any testing of simplenews v1.20 and up.

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spiderman
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Primary language English
Location Halifax, NS
commented

thanks for the update! i've just upgraded the module on my humble home site, and after some simple testing, am very impressed- everything seems to be working pretty smoothly now, although admittedly i haven't been terribly demanding of the module as yet. still, the basic functionality all seems to be there, and i'm happy to have newsletters integrated directly into my site once more :)

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DriesK commented

Thanks for sharing your experiences.

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beginner commented
Version: 7.x-1.x-dev » 4.7.x-1.x-dev
Status: Active » Fixed

simplenews 4.7 now tagged and ready.

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Status: Fixed » Closed (fixed)