Need recipe or module to send pre-written emails to pre-defined addresses...
Hi All,
I am working on an advocacy website that requires sending pre-written emails on behalf of a willing visitor to their state representative. None of the modules I have looked at thus far seem to fit the bill.
If I was hard coding this it would be easy but I'm not sure how to accomplish with Drupal 6. I figure this is a recipe of modules...
Specifically, I need to set up for each state a prewritten email sent on behalf of the website visitor to their state representative. Would be great if I could personalize the email to have the visitors name at the bottom of the email and also send a copy to them as well. I also need to capture the users email into a list and should check for a real person with catpcha.
Is this possible without coding?
All suggestions much appreciated. Thanks!
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I would think the http://drupal.org/project/campaign module would be what you're looking for. Alternatively, you could probably adapt the http://drupal.org/project/letters module.
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Thanks WorldFallz, I will
Thanks WorldFallz,
I will take another look at those. I also just found petition_node.
http://drupal.org/project/petition_node
I'm still in need of a solution if there is one.
Hi,
I've looked at all of these and Email Campaign is the best for my needs but from what I can tell doesn't retain the senders information... is it possible to mash this up with another another module to retain the visitors name and email?
- The petition_node module is great in the way it saves, exports and list petitioners but it doesn't send out an email, in my case to the state representative.
- The letters module isn't right at all as I need to send prewritten emails and maintain a list of emails sent.
I'm looking around for another module now but maybe theres easy to extend the email campaign module?? I'm not that experienced with Drupal yet to know.
Many thanks.
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Anything is possible with drupal-- but your op said "without coding". If the existing modules don't meet your needs, you're crossing over into custom code territory.
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Yeah, I code PHP but I'm
Yeah, I code PHP but I'm not ready to take that on yet.
I could code this as a separate php/mysql page attached to a static site but I don't know how to integrate into Drupal... yet.
I was thinking/hoping there would be a way to use CCK/Views/actions and some other module(s) to do something similar. Create a content type to store the email info, Create a content type to collect the required sender info, use views to list the senders.. but then how would I send the email? not sure how that all would work...
All right I guess I have to rethink this maybe I just build this as a static website.
Thanks.
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You probably could get this going with rules-- but even then you're probably still going to have to use a php action. Sending email from drupal is actually very easy (via the drupal_mail) but this kind of very specific use case is going to involve some custom code. Even so, I can't imagine how coding it from scratch on a "static" site would be easier but whatever floats your boat. ;-)
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Well, I can see in my head
Well, I can see in my head how to get it done that way. Don't get me wrong Drupal is great, but I often spend days trying to learn to do the simplist thing. I don't understand the Drupal subsystem well enough to take that on yet.
I agree I give up a lot. I'll see what I can do maybe I need to pay someone to do this piece of it.
Correction to my previous
Correction to my previous statements. (anyone reading this topic may find this helpful)
The Email Campaign Module does retain the senders information however it does not seem to be documented.
Furthermore its hard to find the link to view the list of "petitioners" as the link is only available to the admin after the campaign form is submited at the bottom of the page. Easy to miss. Thats a huge usuability issue to an otherwise good module but works well enough for me. :)
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I'm sure the maintainer wouldn't mind a documentation patch ;-)
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been there, done it.
Thanks again.