[consulting] Current state of newsletter systems

[Kieran Lal]

On Nov 28, 2006, at 12:37 AM, Mark Hope wrote:

> Can CiviMail be used with a plain install of 4.7 or does it require  
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CivicSpace is a distribution of Drupal and now a hosted version of  
Drupal and CiviCRM.

Cheers,
Kieran

> Mark
>
> On 27 Nov 2006, at 23:07, David Geilhufe wrote:
>
>>
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>> consulting-request at drupal.org wrote:
>>> Message: 1
>>> Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2006 13:48:48 +0000
>>> From: Mark Hope <mark at markhope.net>
>>> Subject: [consulting] Current state of newsletter systems
>>> To: consulting at drupal.org
>>> Message-ID: <4c7429e84b4b219418d59d4d0fa2f907 at markhope.net>
>>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed
>>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>> What I'm looking for:
>>>
>>> - plain text/html sending options or possibility to send multi-part
>>> mail
>>> - Tracking mail/bounces
>>> - Header and footer templates, templates by newsletter type
>>> - embed separate stylesheet for sending with outgoing mail (I  
>>> suppose
>>> this could be done within the templates).
>>> - double optin for anonymous/sign up via account page
>>> - ability to host images on server/absolute links to images
>>>
>>>
>>> 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?
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>> Mark
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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