[consulting] Current state of newsletter systems

[Mark Hope]

Can CiviMail be used with a plain install of 4.7 or does it require 
CivicSpace?

Mark

On 27 Nov 2006, at 23:07, David Geilhufe wrote:

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> consulting-request at drupal.org wrote:
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>> Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2006 13:48:48 +0000
>> From: Mark Hope <mark at markhope.net>
>> Subject: [consulting] Current state of newsletter systems
>> To: consulting at drupal.org
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>> Hi,
>>
>> Just wondering what the current state of the various newsletter 
>> mailing
>> systems are?
>>
>> I've looked at simplenews but it is what it says - Simple. I'm sure
>> that's what the author intended, however I'm sure there must be a 
>> wider
>> demand for a more feature rich mailing system?
>>
>> The features and issues queue that would make Simplenews more complete
>> doesn't seem to be moving very quickly.
>> I think the UI for simplenews is good, but the outgoing mail and
>> formatting I find quite poor.
>>
>> What I'm looking for:
>>
>> - plain text/html sending options or possibility to send multi-part 
>> mail
>> - Tracking mail/bounces
>> - Header and footer templates, templates by newsletter type
>> - embed separate stylesheet for sending with outgoing mail (I suppose
>> this could be done within the templates).
>> - double optin for anonymous/sign up via account page
>> - ability to host images on server/absolute links to images
>>
>>
>> I notice there is also a project at:
>> http://drupal.org/project/enewsletter
>> that consists of several dependent modules. It would look to have more
>> of the features expected for a 'professional' email newsletter system
>> but isn't released under 4.7??
>>
>> Can anybody offer any advice or share experience?
>>
>> Thanks
>> Mark
>>
>>
>>
>>
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