newsletters

Hola, resulta que tengo una base de datos con unos emails segmentados por grupo de edad, ocupación, etc..

Necesito un sistema que le envíe un correo a todos esos emails, pero que se pueda escojer el grupo de edad al cual se le envía el newsletter, o la ocupación, me hago entender?

Osea que antes de enviar el mensaje yo pueda segmentar a quienes de toda esa base de datos les va a llegar el mensaje.

Que modulo me sirve por ahora?

Simplenews is a great module and a lot of Drupal sites use it to send mass mailing to users or subscribers. However, IMO this module has some per-design limitations:

1. The messages cannot be personalized based on the recipient data. You cannot insert formulas like "Dear [first-name] [last-name]" or "Your account balance is $[amount]".
2. It doesn't accept other kind of data as recipient list. Subscriptions are basically stored as a list of E-mail addresses in a specific table. For example you cannot use nodes as recipient list.
3. While subscribers list is a simple E-mail addresses list, you cannot perform advanced filtering on recipients data in order to target very fine subsets of subscribers.

This month, I wrote a custom module for a client, that import newsletters (or "campaigns", as MailChimp calls them) from a given MailChimp account into a Drupal site as nodes. (As many of you know, MailChimp is a rather nice third-party newsletter service.)

How it works:
- Depends on mailchimp.module, using the same account configured in mailchimp.module settings.
- Uses a custom table to store ID's of imported messages.
- Checks MailChimp account for new messages on every cron run, or when an admin pushes the big shiny "Import campaigns" button.

I'm currently using a recently published book entitled, 'Drupal 6 - Social Networking' as a guide for building a social network site. The following are excerpts from the book from the publishers, Packt Publishing. See: www.packtpub.com. I should say that the publishers, Packt Publishing, part sponsored the recent DrupalNGo Camp and sprint in Galway and asked if I would post some excerpts from their book.

Drupal 6 Social Networking: Communicating with Users

Our users can communicate with one another, which is great, but quite often as an administrator the need may arise for us to communicate with a user or users on our site. It may be to remind them about the web site or to inform active users about new changes to the site, which they may not have been made aware of.

This article is extracted from the "Drupal 6 Social Networking" book. In this article, you will learn:

• About mailing lists, and how to use them with our Drupal social network
• How to use an offline approach for contacting our users
• How to use blocks of content to get a message across to your users