I was curious if anyone has come across a newsletter module that will allow site owners to easily send templated email to a mailing list? (If this is built into the core.....oops).
I see one on snowcovered, but there is no mention of the ability to mail it out.
This would be an awesome feature for News and Articles module by Scott McCulloch (www.smcculloch.net). He's now fully committed to DNN on a part time basis and I'm sure he'll include this feature in his module. Drop him
a note. We'll all benefit from it. [Y]
The core has this functionality but it doesn't scale well. Depending on how many emails your ISP allows per connection or minute you'll run into trouble if you have more than a few hundred members. This question came up yesterday and I gave some hints on how
to find information in that post. Search for 'someone@nowhere.com'.
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When you have only a few members there is no need to look beyond the DNN core [:)]
I see a few options:
- write a script/program in your favorite language (Perl, VB, C#, whatever) that retrieves the list of email addresses from your database and then sends your email from your desktop machine in appropriate chunks
- write your own module to do the same thing (and sell it for less than those expensive modules on snowcovered :-)
- write a plain-jane ASP.NET (or asp, php, cgi) application that mines the DNN database and sends email in chunks
- decide that $50 (or whatever) is cheaper than you spending a few hours writing and debugging your code [:)]
All of these look like pretty interesting introductions to programming in general. Should my site ever have so many members that stock DNN doesn't work anymore I might just write something like that.
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An eEmail newsletter would probably be in HTML in order to include images. I am currently working on a module to send a formatted email and want to include a company logo. Apparently this cannot be done in standard DNN. SmtpMail does not facilitate the
embedding of an image in an email.
I posted yesterday and was given links for info that suggest an 3rd party dll is required. AspNetMail seems to be popular.
I'm also looking for a e-mail module capable of using templates and would buy the Advanced e-mail manager blindfolded if only it was localized which is unfortunately not the case. $50 for a module like this is not a big deal but not being able to justify
why everything is in english is a problem.
The Advanced Email Manager looks like a close enough to perfect application for sites that have a newsletter.
Where I see a problem is with newsletter signup.
The above app has a sign up for newsletter thing, which is 1 needed component. But as a web developer, I want the user to make that choice when creating an account on the website.
Does anyone know if there is a way to add a "Would you like to recieve our newsletter" checkbox to the User Registration screen that would not involve modifying the core code? I foresee this as an addition to the registration process that a high number
of implemented sites would utilize. So if there isn't a way, how do I request to the core team that they look at that?
there is a module thats lets you do custom signup info - i think its by ucanuse or something - search around on snowcovered - I think you could use it to do that.
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Know of any newsletter modules?
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I was curious if anyone has come across a newsletter module that will allow site owners to easily send templated email to a mailing list? (If this is built into the core.....oops).
I see one on snowcovered, but there is no mention of the ability to mail it out.
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I see a few options:
- write a script/program in your favorite language (Perl, VB, C#, whatever) that retrieves the list of email addresses from your database and then sends your email from your desktop machine in appropriate chunks
- write your own module to do the same thing (and sell it for less than those expensive modules on snowcovered :-)
- write a plain-jane ASP.NET (or asp, php, cgi) application that mines the DNN database and sends email in chunks
- decide that $50 (or whatever) is cheaper than you spending a few hours writing and debugging your code [:)]
All of these look like pretty interesting introductions to programming in general. Should my site ever have so many members that stock DNN doesn't work anymore I might just write something like that.
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Re: Know of any newsletter modules?
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An eEmail newsletter would probably be in HTML in order to include images. I am currently working on a module to send a formatted email and want to include a company logo. Apparently this cannot be done in standard DNN. SmtpMail does not facilitate the embedding of an image in an email.
I posted yesterday and was given links for info that suggest an 3rd party dll is required. AspNetMail seems to be popular.
http://forums.asp.net/896599/ShowPost.aspx
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Re: Know of any newsletter modules?
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http://www.snowcovered.com/snowcovered2/Default.aspx?tabid=166&uid=ElocmScJDgw%3d&CatalogItemID=1149&MasterCategoryID=16&SubCategoryID=48&pagenumber=0
This is a good one for robust email campaigns. Kinda of lengthy to setup but has CAN SPAM compliance built into it.
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Hi
I'm also looking for a e-mail module capable of using templates and would buy the Advanced e-mail manager blindfolded if only it was localized which is unfortunately not the case. $50 for a module like this is not a big deal but not being able to justify why everything is in english is a problem.
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Re: Know of any newsletter modules?
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The Advanced Email Manager looks like a close enough to perfect application for sites that have a newsletter.
Where I see a problem is with newsletter signup.
The above app has a sign up for newsletter thing, which is 1 needed component. But as a web developer, I want the user to make that choice when creating an account on the website.
Does anyone know if there is a way to add a "Would you like to recieve our newsletter" checkbox to the User Registration screen that would not involve modifying the core code? I foresee this as an addition to the registration process that a high number of implemented sites would utilize. So if there isn't a way, how do I request to the core team that they look at that?
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read my stupid blog http://codemypantsoff.com