Making a news letter!
alibasham - April 21, 2009 - 14:14
Please help me how to develop the news letter that will be send out.
Does the module develops the news letter automatically or do I have to write it and fill it with stories etc
I have installed the simple news module & I am using it for this purpose!
Regards,
Ali
any body??
any body??
Simplenews
Simplenews is meant to be a basic mailing list. It's not a "newsletter builder" per se.
So yes, you would have to write out the email to be sent. That's what it's there for.
If you mean that you need something that builds content automatically, to be sent out to users on a schedule, then I don't know of any module that does this. It seems like a pretty unwieldy thing to implement.
I know other blog API's (e.g. Blogger) have the ability to automatically email a list when a blog is posted. I don't know how to do this in Drupal, however. (I've actually been meaning to ask that very question.)
-Karlheinz
Thanks a lot! I thought
Thanks a lot!
I thought simple news could built that!
Off the cuff, had I been a programmer, I could have:
1. Given options to select the various content types (i.e. Polls, Blogs, Comments from Forums etc) to be included in the post (details or html links).
2. Set the dates (from till or Todate or something similar)
3. A final selection of email list (or set it by default)
4. Send button.
5. Delivery receipt (if need be).
6. An auto system for sending it daily, weekly , frtnightly etc.
I think Yahoo groups does something similar!
Thanks again, please do let me know if there is a module which is already doing it!
Regards,
Ali
Found some modules
Necropost...
I was looking through some mail modules, and when I saw these I thought of your questions.
You should probably look into one of these modules:
Notify - http://drupal.org/project/notify (this is probably closest to what you want...?)
Notifications - http://drupal.org/project/notifications (and related modules)
-Karlheinz
I once wrote a newsletter
I once wrote a newsletter sending app, that might integrate with Drupal with a bit of work:
http://www.onyxbits.de/newsletter
Haven't looked at that thing in years, though. It's written in C and meant to be run from the console (e.g. via CRON). Big advantage over PHP scripts: It can push out large quantities of email without getting interrupted by the webserver for running too long.
Cool! If I were a
Cool!
If I were a programmer!!!