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By apatheticwes on
Hello,
This may seem like a ridiculous question, but I'm pulling my hair out trying to solve it. How do I send an email to my users who have signed up to a mailing list?
To clarify:
I have a mailing list, with many users who have subscribed to it to receive "...all Mail (normal delivery)". Now, how do I send an mail to them? I've looked at Simple News, but feel it runs independently of Drupal's mailing lists. I also am not seeing any other solutions that would help...or I'm missing something obvious.
Thanks for any light you can shed
Edited by: VeryMisunderstood; Moved to post installation forum from Theme development forum
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Simplenews.module allows users to opt in opt out. You create a newletter with the newsletter content type.
I'm not sure what you mean by "independently of Drupal's mailing lists."
which modules are you using ?
Thanks for replying, When I
Thanks for replying,
When I say "independently of Drupal's mailing lists", I mean that Simplenews has its own content type (newsletter), and allows users to subscribe / unsubscribe to newsletters under the "My Newsletters" tab.
Meanwhile, there still is a "Mailing Lists" tab, where user can manage subscriptions to various lists. So, I'm thinking that this doesn't seem to have anything to do with a subscription to a newsletter. I can give the newsletter and the mailing list different names and manage each independently.
First, I should clarify a bit what I'm doing. I'm using (currently) Mailman manager, mailhandler and listhandler (simplenews is also there, but I'm not using it). What I'd like to do is to send users in my mailing list an email whenever a post to the forum occurs. So, we have a listserv-like functionality that is based upon activity in the forum. But I'm having difficulty understanding what is possible and how I should go about doing this...
Cheers
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seems to me you want the a notifications.module more so than a mailing list. What the mailing lists do can be seen here on drupal.org http://drupal.org/mailing-lists
there is subscriptions and notifications.module which may be worth investigating.
still confused
thanks, I'm actually looking at the notifications module right now. It looks promising.
However, my original problem remains: I still don't understand how to send an email to users subscribed to a list, whether it is being done manually or otherwise. The notifications module allows one to follow comments, new content, etc by subscribing to it, but again, this runs in parallel to the mailing lists that are already there.
If I could just figure out how to send a message to my list, I'm sure I could code a module to implement the rest. At this point, it seems that the out-of-the-box mailing lists are completely useless and un-used, which I'm sure is not the case. What are they there for and how are they used? I've seen http://drupal.org/mailing-lists and it's close to what I'd like; however, I can't seem to achieve that sort of functionality if one cannot post to the list.
I'm going to try a different direction and check the subscriptions module right now, then report back
thanks again
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IT may help to list the modules you are using for the mailing list and their versions so that someone with time on their hands can mimic your installation and help work this through.
drupal.org is using mailman and accompanying.modules. mailman is a 3rd party script see: http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/mailman.html
see: http://drupal.org/project/mailman_manager
Okay, I'll check out your
Okay, I'll check out your recommendations,
Thanks for all your time
a clarification
I think I have perhaps a different problem, or maybe can describe it differently:
I'm trying to send an email to the address defined in "Mailing List 'request' address" on the "Edit Mailing List" page, which in turn is not being disseminated to my users. Does Mailman manager check the address somehow? There were no configuration options. I can manually check the mailbox with my mail client and the message is there; likewise, I can have Mailhandler check it, but mailhandler won't send the message to my list...
So, I guess my question is: why doesn't mailman manager take the message and send it out to users in my list? Is it not possible? The documentation is sparse and I'm missing something...
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I'm starting to think you may not have the mailman script running. Have you installed mailman which is not a drupal.module?
that was it
yes, that was the problem. I'm installing it now. thanks for the heads up