Your PDF newsletter is going to have to be sent as a link or an attachment in any case (there's no such thing as e-mail clients accepting just PDF), so it seems that http://drupal.org/project/simplenews is exactly what you want.

I need a solution for http://wsf2008.net/ that works with an externally hosted e-mail (but ideally saves subscription information to Drupal or CiviCRM in some way) so if you need some custom work in this area and want to sponsor it, drop me a line.

But I do think http://drupal.org/project/simplenews is exactly what you want.

benjamin

Agaric Design Collective Open Source Free Software Web Development http://AgaricDesign.com/

On Dec 28, 2007 7:41 AM, Walter Garcia-Fontes walter.garcia@upf.edu wrote:

I've been looking in the available modules for Drupal 5 for the following simple functionality. I post a newsletter in pdf format in my site, and I want to have next to it a "subscribe" link, which if clicked will open a form where the registered or anonymous user can enter his subscription information to receive new issues by email. If submitted the user will get an email to confirm his subscription (to avoid submitting someone else's email) and once confirmed the email address will be added to a mailing list, which the admin can use to send the newsletter in the future.

I've been looking at different existing modules, the closest I found is "simplenews" but it seems to only send a "html" newsletter.

So:

1. is there a module to do this in Drupal 5?
2. do I need an external mailing list handling system to do this, or

can I do it all within drupal (create the table with emails addresses, let user's add themselves through the subscription link, let the admin mass-email the pdf file to the email addresses in the table)

I will also need options for users to auto opt-out from the subscription, also for anonymous users if I let them subscribe.

-- Walter Garcia-Fontes Barcelona

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