By cvining on

I've been looking at the various mail list manager solutions around and have yet to settle on one. I know there is lots of discussion on each particular solution, but I'm looking for help in choosing which way to go. Could people report here on what mail list managers they have working in Drupal 4.7, and maybe comment on what it took to get there?

Let me summarize my experiences so far. None of these are complaints, just observations, so correct me if I've missed things:

  • simplenews works out of the box. Doesn't handle bounces tho, which I consider important.
  • massmailer is techy to setup. I expect it works well on the system(s) it is developed on, but took some serious tweaking to get it sort-of working under 4.6, and it isn't 4.7 compatible yet
  • CiviMail. This looks like a pretty heavy duty solution, but the docs on setting it up are lenghty and sketchy. Not for the faint of heart, but may be worth the trouble if you have heavy duty needs
  • MLM requires Exmlm (and, I presume, qmail) . I haven't tackled that yet
  • There is a mailman module around, but I don't think it works with 4.7

The threshold to just do some simple tests is pretty steep in most cases. For smallish lists, I'd go with simplenews. But I can't be handling bounces myself for a large list.

Does anyone (besides the authors ) have a success story with any of these and 4.7? Thanks! - Cronin

⋅ Categories: Drupal 4.7.x

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cog.rusty’s picture

cog.rusty commented

I am posting this just so that I can track this thread.

By the way, I'll mention the distinction between a multi-way mailing list where all users' mail is redistributed and a one-way mailing list (newsletter). AFAIK simplenews and massmailer are for newsletters.

paragkenia’s picture

paragkenia commented

While searching for multi-way mailing list I came across OG2List, mailing list solution in collobration with Organic Group Module. But I think it is not there in Drupal 4.7 module contrib.

Any one has any idea from where we can download it? Information about OG2List is availble at this link

http://drupal.org/handbook/modules/og2list but there is no download link.

cog.rusty’s picture

cog.rusty commented

Interesting. I hadn't heard of it before, but it seems there is an 'og2list' subdirectory inside 'og/contrib', at least in cvs and in the 4.6 branch. Not in 4.7.

And if I can judge by the fact that the developers were aiming to raise 7,500USD just 2 weeks ago

http://drupal.org/node/59785

it must be a really ambitious project.

paragkenia’s picture

paragkenia commented

There is a tutorial for creating dgroups like website at civicspace http://civicspacelabs.org/home/dgroups-recipe but its for Drupal 4.6 and it also requires additional software Sympa Mailing list manager.

Any receipe for creating multi-way mailing list manager without using outside program?

volunteermama’s picture

volunteermama commented

I admit, I am new to drupal and I also want to know about one way (mailing list) options and compatibility with 4.7

Is there a place to find out this information in the documentation some where?

echoz’s picture

echoz commented

In researching moving a project to drupal, I'm investigating integrating an external script within drupal, in this case Dada Mail, which is a perl script.

Dada Mail is hopefully an example where I can see it not being a disadvantage being an external script. It's admin section can stand on it's own, rather than be included within the theme; the screens to the end user are what I usually template into the site design.

I'm hoping there's a way, since it's a mature + excellent script, + it's been consideration whether to use drupal for some sites.

Anyone have experience running Dada Mail inside drupal, or any external perl cgi script?

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btribble commented

Just ran accross this:

http://mojo.skazat.com/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1151481226

If this works for anyone, please post your results. Would this be of any help to those working on reworking the massmailer module (and maybe adding dada as an engine) to use in 4.7?

echoz’s picture

echoz commented

Yes that was my post on the Dada forum (echo), where I reported my testing worked flawlessly - the Dada html screens integrated within the Drupal theme (using Dada as is, a separate perl cgi script).

As Justin requested, I sent him the following "how to", although it seemed obvious to me.

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Dada Mail integrated within Drupal cms (familiarity with Drupal is assumed).
Tested with Dada 2.10.8 + Drupal 4.7.2
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Create a drupal "page" (note the node#) that has simply the dada template tags wanted:

[dada] - required.
[message] - works entered as the page "Title".

In Dada Mail Admin, from "Edit Template", choose "Use this URL as the template" + enter the full path to that page, which will be:

http://domain.tld/path_to_drupal/node/#

This page will only be encountered as an end user interacts with your list, subscribing or viewing archives, etc.

Put a subscribe form anywhere else, like in a new (sidebar) block or new page.

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