[drupal-support] mass mailer says can't fine php executable even though it's in /usr/bin/

[Petre Scheie]

We're already using Mailman.  It's great as a standalone mailer, but I'm 
  trying to find something that integrates with a CMS.  PHPList sounded 
ideal because we use the mailer just to send out meeting notices to 
members of our group, rather than as a means for everyone to send 
messages to everyone.  And PHPList describes itself as more of a 
broadcast kind of tool.

Our website just lists meeting notices, and I was hoping I could craft a 
system in which the mailer could be used to, say, send out weekly 
messages listing the meetings planned for the next two weeks.  As I 
said, Mailman's a great tool, but it doesn't play very well with others.
Having drupal just call the command-line tools of Mailman would work, 
even if it's a bit inelegant.

Petre

Gerhard Killesreiter wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 30 May 2005, Eric Scouten wrote:
> 
>>Petre Scheie wrote:> > I installed the mass mailer module, and can create messages, but no> > messages are being sent out.>> Petre,>> I encountered this problem about a month ago. Sadly, I never solved it.>> I think you're headed for a lot of pain using PHPlist and the mass> mailer module. IMHO, PHPlist is very poorly documented and fairly buggy.> (I'm clearly not alone in this perception. Google on "phplist" or> "phplist (swear word)" and you'll find a lot of unhappy users.)>> The instructions for mass mailer module were not so great either.> Specifically, they didn't make it clear where to install PHPlist so that> the Drupal integration would work properly. I spent a few hours fiddling> with two seemingly likely answers and neither one worked. (See support> request at http://drupal.org/node/21637, filed a month ago, still> unanswered.)
> 
> I've never installed phplist, but I've spoken to Aaron Welch (themassmailer developer) and he said that phplist would be fairly stable. Ithink many people must be using the massmailer, too, as it is shippedwith civicspace.
> 
>>I eventually gave up and installed Mailman (www.list.org) instead.> There's no integration (yet?) with Drupal
> 
> Mathias and I have been working on it and I can say that it was a mostroyal PITA.  Since mailman uses some python constructs for storing itsdata, it cannot interface directly with PHP or MySQL and we needed toresort to screenscraping to get the info we needed. We got it somewhatworking, but lost interest afterwards.
> An alternative solution would be to execute the commandline tools thatcome with mailman from php, but this solution doesn't appeal to meeither.
> 
>>and it isn't quite what I> wanted (PHPlist's feature set is much closer to what I need), but ...
> 
> What would probably be fairly easy (compared to Mailman) would beintegration of Sympa (another mailing list programm). It stores itsdata in mysql, too, and the data could thus be manipulated from withinDrupal.
> If I'd get some funding, I'd work on it.I've been meaning to set up a reverse bounty for this, but haven'tfigured out how to do that yet.
> 
>>Mailman is a very mature piece of software and I was able to get it up> and running quickly and easily, despite my complete lack of Python> skills. :-)
> 
> Mailman has its own issues, believe me. Om occassion some mails withmultilingual content still get stuck in the queue for example.
> Cheers,	Gerhard
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