[consulting] What do you use for your email newsletters?

[Donald A. Lobo]

CiviMail which integrates with CiviCRM, and hence Drupal has been designed for high volume email blasts. We have quite a few folks using it with a decent volume. There is a paid service called CiviSMTP which avoids some of the more thorny installation / white listing issues. More information on this can be found on the CiviCRM web site / forums etc. CiviMail was based on EmailNow (an email blast service from groundspring.org). The architecture has evolved considerably since then, hence the past tense in the previous statement :).  I dont think CiviMail has some of the composability features of constant contact etc, but from a delivery viewpoint its pretty good.

lobo

p.s> i am a developer on CiviCRM / CiviMail and hence a wee bit biased :)

----- Original Message ----
From: Scott Trudeau <strudeau at umich.edu>
To: A list for Drupal consultants and Drupal service/hosting providers <consulting at drupal.org>
Sent: Tuesday, February 5, 2008 4:19:32 AM
Subject: Re: [consulting] What do you use for your email newsletters?



I like CampaignMonitor.  Similar to MailChimp.

Scott

On Feb 4, 2008 7:40 AM, Tim Deeson <timd at deeson.co.uk> wrote:

Hi Chris

I'm of much the same opinion, there's more to running large scale mass
email systems then just managing subscriptions and pumping emails into
Sendmail.

We've been using Drupal to manage and generate the HTML and the issues

etc and then using MailChimp to do the actual emailing. We've embedded
MailChimp subscribe and unsubscribe etc into the template.

This has given us a CMS for non-techie staff to manage the newsletters
without getting into all the complicated deliverability issues. I

don't see that we can address the deliverability issues at a price
that makes sense compared to MailChimp's (for example) rates.

We also use their InBox Inspector (email program HTML proofer) and
statistics which could be replicated but at their prices why re-invent

the wheel?

An example of this is www.green-places.co.uk (demonstrates principle
although doesn't use MailChimp). This site was created specifically to

house and manage an email newsletter.

Thanks

Tim
www.deeson.co.uk/emedia/

> Hi guys,
>
> I'm new to this list so please forgive if this has been addressed

> before.
>
> I often get requests from clients for email newsletter facilities, and
> i know Drupal has a module that handles this, but I've usually chosen
> a third party solution like Mailbuild, or Mailchimp over it though.

> I'm doing this because there seems to be way more to email marketing
> than simply bolting a module onto a Drupal install, and I don't have
> the resources to track white lists and spam filtering, and all the

> other niggly things about sending bulk emails.
>
> Well, those are the reasons the third party solutions give in their
> sales pitch anyway!
>
> Has anyone here had good/bad experiences with providing Drupal-related

> newsletter services to clients here they would be prepared to share?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Chris



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