By soccernyc on

I needed something similar to how meetup.com (or Google Groups) handles mailing lists for my drupal website.

*I need the ability to forward an emailed message I receive to a dedicated email address that will distribute the message to the registered users of my site such as mysite-mailinglist[at]woohoo.com
*I would also like this app/module to have a webbased GUI component so my users can use an online form to send out message to the group as well directly from the website.
*mailinglist archive to be created as messages are sent, so users can go back and review the previously sent messages.

I have been using the mass contact drupal module, which was webbased and great (did not have the email based forward to distribution list feature). It worked well for a short-term solution because it had all the webbased features I was looking for. However my membership has grown and the module can no longer handle the load as the server times out trying to send out the message to my now hundreds of users.

If you have any interest please contact me to further discuss.

Thank you!

⋅ Categories: Drupal 6.x

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Anonymous (not verified) commented

This isn't a suitable job for drupal. If you want a good performance mailing list manager, install one such as mailman. Using a website content management system to replace an email system isn't a great idea. I'd highly recommend switching to a mailing list manager and then looking into drupal integration of that if necessary.

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soccernyc commented

I can't seem to get any mailing list software to integrate seamlessly with my drupal site. I want messages that are sent out to be archived and appear as a node (the same node). Mailman does not work for my needs and neither does Dada mail or pommo. I need something based through my drupal site.

Right now this is what I've had to do. Add my registered users manually to a gmail account and sent out my emails that way. Users are using the contact form to send me an email that they want sent out the whole group. I

I think what I really need is more development of the mass contact module, that will batch the emails (so no more than 100 go out at a time as more than that causes my server to time out) and adds all the emails sent out as blog posts.

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slurpee commented

I would recommend using mailman for mailing. There are a few Drupal modules that work with mailman subscriptions and such. I have played around with it my and am interested in more of your ideas. I think it would be cool to write a fully functioning mailman module. Would be perfect for some many organizations, user groups, fan clubs, etc. The current mailman interface is pretty ugly.

In addition, I have utilized meetup.com to organize the Chicago Drupal user group. I have been playing with Drupal and meetup.com for a few years now. A few members and I have played with the meetup.com API. Do you have any ideas of features you are looking for from the API?