recommended Newsletter Module for Drupal 6?
nvisioncurtis - July 31, 2009 - 20:44
Simplenews looked great until I realized that the the MailMime module used to send HTML mail is not ready for 6.x...
Is there a comparible module that is?
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Dev version
There is a dev version of Mime Mail. I know I am really dubious about working with any dev copies, but thats the only solution I found on D.o if you want to send HTML newsletters. Check out the issue queue for the dev version to see what bugs have come up, or how 'on to it' the maintainers are with fixes etc.
Formerly I_am_trying_to_understand but it was too long so I changed it!
This may help
http://drupal.org/node/512280
Formerly I_am_trying_to_understand but it was too long so I changed it!
This looks promising but ...
I'm assuming they are talking about the 6.x Dev version not the 5.x version...
Also found this
http://drupal.org/node/367488
http://drupal.org/project/htmlmail and patch for Simple news
I will give it a try Monday!
Yes
I am guessing it would have to be the dev version too.
I have actually installed Simplemail and Mime mail for a site but not played around with it yet. Perhaps we will both get somewhere Monday?!
Formerly I_am_trying_to_understand but it was too long so I changed it!
Did you have any luck?
I haven't had time to try this yet.
Just getting started
So far it looks as if the setting up of Mime Mail to work with Simplenews is a mere check box.
What I am finding strange is that SImplenews insists on a title for the newsletter that it then puts above the main body of your newsletter - where I don't see a need for it at all. May have to suppress this with 'auto node title' perhaps or see how this works when it sends.
Also difficult to layout newsletter unless you choose fixed width components (instead of percentage width) like tables etc, and even harder if your theme does not support this width (ie is narrower) - so not sure what to do there.
Feel like I have a long way to go still.
Formerly I_am_trying_to_understand but it was too long so I changed it!
Hang in there,
Keep in mind that email browsers like outlook actually like tables and such. CSS positioning can be an issue I have found.
I'm so swamped with learning how to theme that I haven't even got to simplenews yet.
Should be a way to suppress the title. Perhaps with theming functions... I would post/search elsewhere with that question.
Actually just looked in the file in the simplenews folder simplenews-newsletter-body.tpl.php
try commenting out the title and see what happens like so
<?php#print $title;
?>
I think the correct way to do this is to copy the file to your theme and then make edits... which will override...