[consulting] Current state of newsletter systems

[Scott Trudeau]

Civimail is a weighty beast -- doable if you are/have a good sysadmin
and root on your boxes and willing to handle postmaster issues
(getting whitelisted with major ISPs, etc.)... but for high volume
mailing, if you can afford it, I'd look for a hosted solution.  I know
Gaiahost has some Civimail experience and I think CivicSpace is
testing hosted Drupal/CiviCRM/CiviMail right now...

I've heard some folks *cough*Advomatic*cough*  have code that
integrates Drupal/CiviCRM in some fashion with some major list hosts
(ConstantContact, Topica, etc.) but I don't think there is anything
public.

I'm toying w/ the idea of building a module to integrate specifically
with CampaignMonitor only because their API is so nice and neat.
There's probably some "right way" metathinking about how to abstract
this all out but that's more work than I'm willing to do. :)

Scott

On 11/27/06, Boris Mann <boris at bryght.com> wrote:
>
>
> On 11/27/06, Mark Hope <mark at markhope.net> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Just wondering what the current state of the various newsletter mailing
> > systems are?
> >
> > I've looked at simplenews but it is what it says - Simple. I'm sure
> > that's what the author intended, however I'm sure there must be a wider
> > demand for a more feature rich mailing system?
> >
> > The features and issues queue that would make Simplenews more complete
> > doesn't seem to be moving very quickly.
> > I think the UI for simplenews is good, but the outgoing mail and
> > formatting I find quite poor.
>
> It's unlikely that simplenews will (or should) evolve to  anything more
> complex.
>
> There are entire projects dedicated to newsletter setup and send out. I
> would suggest that this is a non trivial task, especially if you want to
> send out high volume to lists (although you could use Drupal to send to an
> external distribution list).
>
> So, short answer, I don't know of anything being developed right now, and
> it's a big job to get done right. There is CiviMail -- see
> http://civicrm.org/civimail -- which integrates with CiviCRM / Drupal. Don't
> know how optimized it is for the HTML + header/footer that you're looking
> for.
>
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