[support] simplenews - Bouncing emails, Background colour & other issues

[geniekids]

Thanks a ton for the wonderfully detailed response. Helped me a lot. Have
filled up the questionnaire. Will continue to use simplenews with MORE
confidence. :-)


KOBA | Hans Rossel wrote:
> 
> 1. Bounce handling is not yet present in simplenews, but is one of the
> things that is on the road map, there are some ideas/pieces of code in the
> issue queue of simplenews that can help allready. Check the mail directory
> on your server as bounced emails can end up there. Check also the
> simplenews
> questionnaire http://simplenews.erikstielstra.nl/ to see more of the stuff
> that could improve simplenews.
> 
> 2. Put initial send time to 0 otherwise you will have newletters send out
> multiple times (I had between 2 and 7 times, see also
> http://drupal.org/node/125865) to the same subscriber. 100 and 10 minutes
> could be ok, but will depend also on the traffic your server is having. At
> night sending a batch of 100 newsletters can easily take 5 times less time
> than during the most busy hours of the day. Ask simplenews to log the
> sending and check watchdog to see how long it takes to send the 100 mails
> and adjust cron time accordingly, you can still do this when the sending
> has
> started. Give some extra time as a buffer as too short time between cron
> runs will also cause newsletters to be send out multiple times due to cron
> overrun.
> 
> 3. In tinymce select the last option and select for css: "use tinymce
> default" (this is probably on use theme css for you).
> 
> 4. I have used simplenews for over 35000 subscribers so the number is not
> a
> problem. Just give more than enough time to get the newsletters out to
> prevent cron overrun and doubles send out. The main disadvantages of
> simplenews are stuff that are also mentioned in the questionnaire like
> bounce handling and statistics (even a basic question as are my
> newsletters
> read is not answered, let alone the fancy statistics you have on
> commercial
> applications). Theming seemed a problem for me at first sight but with a
> bit
> of searching I found the solution to that and described it in
> http://drupal.org/node/268404. I have not used mailman, but I know you can
> setup a workflow which integrates mailman with Drupal.
> 
> Good luck,
> 
> Hans
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 2008/8/22 geniekids <ratadi2 at gmail.com>
> 
>>
>> Description
>>
>> I tried my first email newsletter with simplenews.
>>
>> 1. How does simple news handle bounced emails. I am mailing to 7000+
>> emails.
>> Surely many emails will get bounced. But i did not get any email in the
>> sender email box. Is there a way to check that and get the list of
>> bouncing
>> emails ids. (to clean up the list)
>>
>> 2. I have set Cron throttle to 100 and set Initial send time: 2seconds
>> (default value)). Cron using poormanscron is set to run every 10 minutes.
>> Ae
>> these appropriate settings?
>>
>> 3. Also while composing i had not put any background colour and formatted
>> the html email in TINYMCE. During delivery - only to yahoo email ids - it
>> is
>> adding a ugly background colour which is making it almost impossible to
>> read
>> the email. This is not happening in gmail or hotmail! What could be
>> causing
>> this?
>>
>> 4. Also fundamentally is simple news the "right choice" for emailing
>> something to a large number like 7000+ emails. Should i be looking at
>> some
>> other module or any other mailing package - any recommendations - is
>> mailman
>> a better choice. Though i love the integration of simple news into the
>> drupal website and ease of subscribing offered to the visitors.
>>
>> thanks in advance
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