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

[Alex Cochrane]

We have tried a number of solutions using drupal modules. Simplenews is 
good but it became too hard to manage the theming side of html 
newsletters and we finally moved everything over to mailbuild. We also 
just released a module for mailbuild 
(http://www.drupal.org/project/mailbuild) that allows users to sign up 
to your mailbuild lists from a drupal site. IMO this is the best 
solution for HTML emails. If you are happy with plain text then 
simplenews.module is a very good alternative.

Alex Cochrane

>> 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
>>