Newsletter, no mail sent, but job finished OK!

[mecken]

Hi,
I am trying to use the Newsletter module with FEU groups. All is working... but no mail sent... even though Newsletter module reports "1 mail sent, 0 error".

When adding users manually (on top of the FEU group selected) this mail is sent (but not the one from the FEU group). Also testmail from CMS Mailer sends OK.

CMSMS version 1.12
Newsletter version 1.2.0
FEU version 1.28
PHP version 5.5.21

When setting debug mode I received one error:
Undefined variable: return_id in /home/mysite/public_html/modules/Newsletter/action.send_mails.php on line 146.
When renaming the variable on line 146 from $return_id to $returnid the error disappeared, but still no mail.

Note, I used the same mail address on the manual add (that sends OK) as on the user in the FEU list (that is not sent), so there is no problem with the "to" address.

Any hint on where to look further is appreciated.
Many thanks

[mecken]

Seems easy to reproduce...
I made a fresh install of CMSMS on my testsite and installed FEU (with its dependencies) plus CGSimpleSmarty and Newsletter.

Created some groups and at least one user in FEU.

Wrote a mail message in Newsletter and made the few FEU settings in Newsletter (Selected email field and names field).

Initiated the newsletter mail, and in this process selected which FEU group should receive the mail plus added one extra mail address directly in Newsletter.

After sending, noted that Newsletter respond with a "Done!" and reported two mails sent. (If you have one user in the selected FEU group).

Received only the mail that was manually added directly in Newsletter, no mail received for the member in the FEU group.

So, the problem is easy to re-produce on a fresh new system, just wonder if someone has this functioning on a lower version system?

[Dr.CSS]

You installed Job manager and made a cron job for it, right..?

[mecken]

No Cron job.
I am trying to test it on just one user in one group before setting up a cron job for my 125 users.

Maybe I am wrong, but I thought that absence of the cron job could hardly explain why a newsletter is sent to the one person I set up manually in the sent process but not sent to the one person in one group that was included in the selection? Or is the cron job a mandatory dependency?

Many thanks

[Dr.CSS]

You need to read the NMS Help page obviously...

[calguy1000]

It's not NMS. it's some other module.
NMS's install directory is "NMS" and there was never a 1.2 version released.

[janvl]

If you install PHPList next to CMSMS then you can send any CMSMS-page as a newsletter.

Kind regards,
Jan

[mecken]

It's not NMS. it's some other module.

You are right. The module is named "Newsletter" and the latest version is 1.2.0

Reason I happened to pick this one was the (as I thought) simple connection to FEU so that a FEU group could be selected as distribution list.

[mecken]

Noticed that Newsletter is stale module.
No author seems to be active and when checking how it fetch data from FEU module, it uses deprecated function.

So, I think I drop this module and look for other alternatives.

Thanks for your interest.