[consulting] Current state of newsletter systems

[Robert Castelo]

Heh, the 'e' in eNewsletter now stands for 'extreme' as well as 'email' 
after a comment Dries made about it being "way too extreme" ;-)

I've been actively working on it for the last few months updating it to 
4.7 and adding some features that clients requested - most notably 
sending messages relative to profile dates (1 month before, 1 week 
after...or whatever).

The amount of processing this feature required at send out time meant 
that I've had to completely refractor the whole thing to distribute the 
load across multiple actions, and I've come up with a much more 
scalable queuing system. Working on this and the user import module has 
really taught me a lot about strategies for scalability.

Current status is that it's working on a few live sites (mostly 
intranets), but needs a bit more work to generalise it before it's 
ready for release to the community.

If you want to see in action, register here:

http://www.clearspring.co.uk

- yes that is a Drupal site! (4.7)

Hopefully over the Xmas holidays I'll have time to put into getting 
this released.

All the best,
Robert


On 10 Dec 2006, at 15:26, Peter Brownell wrote:

> Although there probably is some level of overlap, the two projects are 
> at
> rather different ends of the spectrum, Robert says enewsletter has been
> called "really complex newsletter" a few times. Maybe one day they 
> could
> merge - but not soon.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: consulting-bounces at drupal.org 
> [mailto:consulting-bounces at drupal.org]
> On Behalf Of Mark Hope
> Sent: 10 December 2006 12:36
> To: A list for Drupal consultants and Drupal service/hosting providers
> Subject: Re: [consulting] Current state of newsletter systems
>
> Good to hear enewsletter is being worked on - As I said, the project 
> looked
> pretty quiet/dead (to me anyway), but it obviously isn't.
>
> See:
> http://www.cortextcommunications.com/node/554
>
> Rob Barreca is working on patching simplenews to make it more useful 
> and
> flexible for future use. Is there overlap between these two projects 
> or are
> they intended to serve different needs?
>
> Mark
>
>
> On 10 Dec 2006, at 11:56, Peter Brownell wrote:
>
>> Hi Mark
>>
>> I know Robert has been pretty busy making enewsletter do all sorts of
>> new stuff. I suspect you will see a new release soon (but the Xmas
>> party season may slow things down.
>>
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: consulting-bounces at drupal.org
>> [mailto:consulting-bounces at drupal.org]
>> On Behalf Of Mark Hope
>> Sent: 10 December 2006 11:55
>> To: A list for Drupal consultants and Drupal service/hosting providers
>> Subject: Re: [consulting] Current state of newsletter systems
>>
>>
>> On 10 Dec 2006, at 03:31, Moshe Weitzman wrote:
>>
>>> I didn't catch any mentions of Robert Costello's terrific newsletter
>>> module
>>> suite:
>>> http://www.cortextcommunications.com/development/newsletter/features.
>>> I'm not sure how up to date it is, but I did use it successfully a
>>> while ago on a client site.
>>> _______________________________________________
>>
>> Moshe,
>>
>> I actually started the thread looking for some feedback on either
>> simplenews or enewsletter
>>
>>>> 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?
>>
>> The project looks to be fairly inactive and I'm not sure if it's
>> compatible with 4.7?
>> The feature list ticks all the boxes for me, but it doesn't look to be
>> an option.
>>
>> Mark
>>
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