[support] Simplenews question

[Shai Gluskin]

Albert,

It seems like the "enewsletter" module would be perfect. But it isn't
done and the last commit was from November of last year. I've tried
emailing the creator but didn't get any response from him.

http://drupal.org/project/enewsletter

I like Neils ideas, quite clever on the customizing.

Here is something else I'm looking into:

http://zookoda.com/

I've done some initial testing and it's good but needs some tweaking.
They provide a tagging system to help create a template with exactly
what you want. And the most important thing is that it didn't have any
trouble bringing in data from Drupal generated RSS feeds. Once nice
feature is that you can rearrange the order of the articles that were
brought in via the feed, or arbitrarily delete any of them.

Looks pretty nifty, and it's free!

Report back,

Shai
http://content2zero.com

On 9/29/07, Neil: esl-lounge.com <neil at esl-lounge.com> wrote:
> Albert,
>
> I faced the same issues as you and here is what I ended up doing with
> SimpleNews:
>
> 1. Create simple text newsletter that goes to everyone on the list
> containing just something like:
>
> Hi $user,
>
> Today's newsletter can be found here:
>
> http://www.mysite.com/newsletters/27-sept-07
>
> Regards
> etc, etc
>
> 2. Members have to log in to view the node on which I created the actual
> newsletter itself.
>
> 3. Set filter to php on that page and use block snippets to present each
> member with unique content or else other blocks which would be the same for
> all members. Examples:
>
> - last 10 blog entries (same for all)
> - last 10 members from your state (unique)
> - last 5 forum posts about your state (unique)
> - most read forum topics this week (same for all)
>
> and so on.
>
> 4. This means that each week, I only need to write opening paragraph
> (general site news, contests, etc) and the rest of the newsletter pretty
> much writes itself. Not only does it come out looking fresh each week, but
> fresh for each individual member. Depending on how much granularity you want
> to use, there's no reason why you can't be sending out 5000 newsletters with
> no two being identical.
>
> Neil
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Albert Cuesta" <acuesta at gmail.com>
> To: <support at drupal.org>
> Sent: Saturday, September 29, 2007 11:39 AM
> Subject: [support] Simplenews question
>
>
> > Hi
> >
> > As far as I know, Simplenews is the only available module for managing
> > newsletters. However, I find it way too... well, simple (!) when
> > compared to the newsletter modules for other platforms, lacking such
> > basic features as generating the newsletter content automatically,
> > based, for instance, on the 10 most recent nodes, or the last post
> > from some category, or the latest registered users, and so on.
> >
> > Are there any plugins for Simplenews that help creating the newsletter
> > content? Or have I missed some, more advanced, alternative newsletter
> > modules for Drupal?
> >
> > Thanks in advance for your comments
> >
> > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> > Albert Cuesta
> > http://www.CanalPDA.com
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