This group will discuss and devlop email solutions within Drupal. There are lots of modules that contain duplicate mailing efforts, and various modules that deal with small pieces of the overall mail puzzle. The goal of this group is to investigate existing and new modules that unify these efforts and form end-to-end solutions.
Possible areas of focus:
- Reusing mail-sending code site-wide (for user mails, subscriptions, project, etc.)
- Themeing and mime mail
- User Preferences (do not contact, text-only, etc)
- Scalable announcement/mail campaign strategies
- MLM/forum/group integration
- Inbound/mail parsing code (for forum mails, tickets, etc.)
Future of the SimpleNews Module
This discussion is an extension of an IRC session with Sutha and others, with a goal of finding the best way forward.
Simplenews is in an unfortunate situation right now where it is OK for text newsletters but difficult for HTML, and also doesn't provide a good framework for going outside the box. The module needs to be small enough to be maintainable, but still capable of meeting all needs.
I believe we'll need to reorganize the module into different components to accomplish this.
Mailhander "gotchas"... what are future plans?
Hello,
I'm using the mailhandler module to allow healthcare professionals to add content to websites via email. Our sites use tags to organize content, so it's necessary that the e-mail submission contains the proper tags. I've played a lot with the 6.x-1.8 release of mailhandler. It works, but there are a few "gotchas". I'd like to know future plans for the module to see if these might be addressed.
Here are the "gotchas".
- If the e-mail contains HTML content, tags don't work
- there is no 'free-tagging'. The tag sent in the email must already exist.
problematics with return path in emails
Hello guys and girls,
We are a provider for PHP solutions, and our house cms is drupal. But we have the problem , that we can't set a return path. We must provide a special parameter to mail() . For sendmail is "-fmymail@togo.de" .
That's really a problem. But the solution is very simple. So why this feature is not planned or discussed in this group.
We must patch every installation of our drupal services and i hate this ;- (
Solution for 5 parameter
<?php
function drupal_mail_send($message) {
// Allow for a custom mail backend.
Newbie: Is it possible? Grabbing a webpage and sending it out as an email.
HI All,
I'm a newbie to this so please forgive the might be silly question.
Currently we have a mailing list that we send news out to.
What i want to have is the ability to 'grab' out news page and email it out to our mailing list with just a few simple clicks. Is this possible??
What i would like is to also have the ability to create an control the mailing list. The closes thing that we have is a Groupmail which means that we have to triple work.
Any advice on this matter??
thanks in advance.
Attachments to the registration notification/verification email
I am new to the group so this might be the wrong place but I am curious if there is a way to attach a file to the mail that goes out when someone registers. It seems not. Does anyone else think this would be useful?
Mailman and Groups
Hope this will be of interest: http://drupal.org/project/mailman_groups and http://netgenius.co.uk/project/mailman_groups
Overview
The Mailman Groups module provides a level of integration between Organic Groups and Mailman mailing lists and compliments the existing Mailman Manager and User Mailman Register modules. It is probably particularly relevant to sites which operate a large number of Groups and/or Mailing Lists.
free tagging support in mailhandler
Please help to test this patch which adds free tagging support in mailhandler.
Until now it was impossible to add new tags via the taxonomy: command. Now it is.
Subscriptions vs. Notifications vs. Project issue's mail.inc
Here are some notes that I took while comparing these system, based on a couple hours of poking around and reading code. Anyone feel free to jump in here and correct me on any of this stuff, especially if you've actually /used/ either of these modules before. :P
Mailout module first release (5.x-1.0-alpha1)
I have just packaged up the first release (ALPHA1) of Mailout module. Mailout provides a simple interface for sending out an email to a group of email addresses.
The group of email addresses can be defined many ways (pasted into text field, role(s), mailing lists (provided by mailout), csv file, etc.) all addative.
Mailout module also provides a template content type, so you can store email templates (broken up into header/body/footer/etc.) to be used when sending a mailout.
Organic Groups Subscriptions v1.0 Official release
After 3 months of intense work... I'm proud to announce first stable release of Organic Groups Subscriptions ! now available.
Special thanks to gustav, he is a wonderful mentor and project lead.
Hope you enjoy it...
Blessings!
HOWTO build an add-on for Subscriptions module
The Subscriptions module provides a range of subscription types. Users can subscribe to individual content items, to all items of a particular content type, to all posts in a particular blog, or to all items tagged with a particular taxonomy term. The range of subscription types can be extended by additional add-on modules. This guide describes the hooks a module needs to implement to provide new subscription types.
Call for assistance: SMTP Authentication + MimeMail integration
One of the questions that came up was how to leverage the consistent theme and UI of MimeMail when you've got deliverability issues with your hosting environment.
The solution to deliverability issues is to use the excellent. SMTP Authentication module. However, due in part to Drupal's architecture and SMTP Authentication's implementation, MimeMail and SMTP Authentication may be mutually exclusive in some cases:
http://drupal.org/node/132903
http://drupal.org/node/149984
http://drupal.org/node/111690
http://drupal.org/node/66711
Connecting MimeMail and the Messaging Framework
Hi All--
Based on some ideas and requests generated during the Mail, Notifications & Messaging Framework session at Drupalcon Boston I decided to attempt a quick-and-simple plugin module for messaging which would make Allie Micka's most excellent MimeMail functionality available as delivery method for the Notifications & Messaging frameworks.
MailQ: More control over Mail
Hello. I rescently released the guts of a a more complicated module called "MailQ". It's a module that "queues" mail up before sending, however still uses which ever smtp_library (either drupal_mail default or mimemail, etc.) to send the mail.
One can read more about the module here or try out the module at http://drupal.org/project/mailq.
Mail API
I just wanted to let you guys know about a few new projects I'm working on. Mail API, IMAP API, and Webmail.
Mail API will provide both an abstraction layer for front-end webmail user interface modules, or whatever else people come up with that could use the API, and a hooking system for back-end modules that will communicate with mail servers.
IMAP API is a back-end module (obviously for communication with IMAP servers), which will implement the Mail API hooks.
Webmail is a front-end module that will provide a webmail interface for users to access their email accounts, and will use API from Mail API to access the mail server.
Email notifications
The requirements we have for email notifications on our site are quite generic. We want users to be able to selectively subscribe to notifications of various content updates and comments and to choose how they receive the notifications. Nevertheless there does not appear to be a single module that does what we want. The subscription module comes close, but does not handle subscriptions to organic groups. Of course organic groups handles subscriptions itself, but does not allow the flexibility to subscribe to individual content or content types.
MLM and friends ported to 5
Looks like Allie ported the MLM and send and news modules to 5.
@Allie - are you up for pushing some better mail queue feature into core for 6? you mentioned this work at http://drupal.org/node/28604
Design for multi-domain OG list manager
Hello, we have posted a design for multi-domain list manager: here
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blockquote>Understanding the possible limitation of not having access to master.cf as well as the necessity that all incoming mail be routed through mail-in.pl, it seems logical to do the routing in mail-in.pl.
What I conceive is to have a configuration option in mail-in.pl which directs it to consider multiple domains.
The values of the configuration option (ie: routing_type) will be directives indicating behavior (ie: NONE, LOCAL, DATABASE).
NONE will be the default and will provide the present behavior of honoring the mail.conf to do the appropriate database inserts for the incoming mail.
Sending file attachments with Drupal
Hello Folks:
We're trying to find a solution that would allow a user with the required permissions to send out messages with MIME-appropriate attachments (jpgs, docs, xls, ppt, mp3, lord knows what else) to a mailing list compiled from all active users of the site.
The client would like to be able to create a newsletter ala simplenews and then send them out to all active users. We've tried the fix here: http://drupal.org/node/28908#comment-64510 but to no avail.
Would anyone have a suggestion as to how we might best approach this problem?
Thanks very much,
Steve
Wiki editing?
(I think) I remember seeing in a demo video from Zacker some time ago, showing OG2List, that one function was that OG members could also have their own little wiki section that they could edit. Was that the case, if so, can any one share how that was achieved?
Many thanks, neil.
