On Wed, 17 Aug 2005, Robert Douglass wrote:
BTW: The fact that massmailer was so buggy seems to indicate that the demand for massmailing beyond user_mail()'s capabilities is maybe overestimated. ;->
I think rather that it is more complex and therefore not accessible to hobby Drupalists.
True massmailing (as in tens of thousands of mails) will _never_ be available to hobby Drupalists with el cheapo hosting. Why? - technical difficulties - any sane webhoster will deny sending mass mails to cheap customers for fear of getting blacklisted. And if you just need to send a few hundred mails, you probably will do fine with user_mail() and a cronjob.
I personally think demand is large for mailing lists, newsletters and the like, but that it is too hard.
Proper mailing _is_ hard. Cheers, Gerhard