Newletter module

[MaxPhantom]

For about one week I have been using cmsms, and I love it !

I would very much like to use / implement an Newsletter module.
A module where users of the cms can store email-adresses into the dbase, make an nice
html background / use an css and once in a while send al the people in the list an nice
looking email with news, offers and so on.

Is there somebody who would like to make somethink like this (i know i can not),
or is there an existing programm to implement / use ??

Max

[sjg]

I have been planning a module something like this, although it was just going to support the creation of the mailing lists. People would be able to opt in to lists and mark choices about which subject(s) interest them. To comply with CAN-SPAM and SpamCop, it would generate a confirmation email containing a unique link that the user would need to click in order to subscribe.

I was thinking of having the admin portion simply support downloading a list of names/email addresses into a comma-delimited file for use in mail merge software. It would allow you to download a list of all subscribers, or subscribers who selected certain interests.

I'll probably make this code an extension to Silmarillion's UserID module.

I'm open to suggestions for functionality. If having it actually generate the emails would be useful to people, I suppose that could be added, but templates for HTML email might get complicated from both a coding and a usability perspective.

___Samuel___

[gnolen]

Hi SJG,

This would be a great thing to have! Just for comanies to have a small newsletter. People could enter their email, name and so on and this gets stored in a 'newsletter' module. And from within the admin one could send an email to all of them...Or maybe this is to much to ask for? I have used phpwcms before and their newsletter module were great and easy to use, maybe something to look at when programming?

I would be really really happy if some kind of newsletter(if very simple I still would be a happy camper) would come, stupid as I am, I kind of promised one of my clients this!


Take care!
Greetings from Gnolen

[kishman155]

I am thinking about to script it after i finished other modules (ban ip adresses,Search without google).
What features should the Newslettermodule have?

should it send a Url to the User to visit the site or should it send a list of News?

thanks for reply kris

[mcschulz]

I'd love to see a Module that generates a Mail with the News ( of the last month or whatever ) from the Newspage. It should only contain the titles and the first line of each newsitem and a link to the full article in order to keep it nice and small - what about that?

[jacebenson]

I am thinking about to script it after i finished other modules (ban ip adresses,Search without google).
What features should the Newslettermodule have?

should it send a Url to the User to visit the site or should it send a list of News?

thanks for reply kris

set it up so a user types in their e-mail address and it sends a confirmation page to subscribe to some list(s).
then have that awesome tinymce editor be what you want to send.

If you want news to be mailed maybe there is some way to pull the news you have from an RSS i know i saw some development on that stuff else where in the forums here.

[Alex_Leipzig]

I'd love to see a Module that generates a Mail with the News ( of the last month or whatever ) from the Newspage. It should only contain the titles and the first line of each newsitem and a link to the full article in order to keep it nice and small - what about that?

Try this one, it works pretty well, but it contains ads...

http://www.kbcafe.com/rss/rss2smtp.aspx

And then there's this RSS feature of phpList, a newsletter module:

PHPlist can be set up to read a range of RSS sources and send the contents on a regular basis to users. The user can identify how often they want to receive the feeds. For more information about RSS click here

http://tincan.co.uk/phplist