Support/Comments for TXNewsletters

Hi -

it’s been mentioned now and then above, but has anyone found a way to hotwire this to use existing web users as the subscription list? Would be great to integrate membership then allow users to select options (ie. what mailing list to join) rather than have seperate site membership from newsletter list...
Perhaps there could be a way of selecting the list source - web users vs. created list - though imported users (csv) would have to be handled also.

If only I could code!

Hi,

Having only one newsletter, is there à way to have checked by default the checkbox where you choose the newsletter ?

I’ve tried in the xml :


But doesn’t work.

Tanks,
Lezebre

Great Plug-in, managed to get working.

Thanks for the file_get_contents hints in the wiki, Susan.

Do you have any experience out there how many mails can be sent without problems by TX-Newsletters (I’m on a 1+1 Platin, formerly Schlund+Partner server, PHPList is sending 2000 without problems from it)?

2000 shouldn’t be a problem, should they? I’m testing TX Newsletters for a client with 2000 or up to 5000 recipients.

One more question: in the Snippet description it reads:

6/ ... => subscribe template page should have this snippet call "" to generate subscribe form

There’s missing something in the "" - or is it missing by intent (one line later the same for unsubscribe)?

Thanks!

Hi,

Many thanks FranckT for sharing your work!
This module is really a great addition to modx! Archived NL’s is a feature that nearly every client want, and now it is possible to do everthing into the manager!
Having the newsletters directly inside the modx tree is fantastic! And the client writes his newsletter just like he create a new page for the website...

TXNewslettres is in early stage now, but i think this module have a great potential.
The missing features:

- CAPTCHA (never know how to write this for subscribe/unsubscribe (i’ve read something about a snippet allowing eform to manipulate SQL requests!)
- E-mail validation and IP logging
- Ability to send multipart text/html messages
- Limit the number of messages sent by second
- Advanced form customization
- Customizable mail header

I think these things could make TXNewsletters an essential module for modx.
I have a basic knowledge of PHP, and a few time, so maybe i could help for something?

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@hgw : check the bundled readme file

I’ve used the perl DADA mail application and found it very easy to incorporate into a module; it does just about everything. It doesn’t work on my new Solaris server, though, so now I’m using PHPList. I haven’t started digging at it to see how to embed it in a module yet; I may not bother since the client is perfectly happy with it as a separate application. And it does just about everything too.

I am able to send emails out to myself but when sending to the full email list (1000), the emails don’t arrive. It says "sending done". Has anyone else experianced the same issue? Any suggestions would be much appreciated..

Some shared servers don’t allow mail to be sent to external addresses; so sending mail from mysite.com to [email protected] will work, but sending to another server is blocked.

If this is the case, you need to change the mailer script to use SMTP rather than the PHP mail() function. This usually involves specifying a SMTP server with login and password to a valid account on that server.

Hi,

I have a real issue, trying to have the checkbox checked by default !!!

To put a value in the "default" tag, in the XML, doesn’t work for me.


The "Option 1" box won’t be checked

Is there a bug or do i miss something ?

Tanks,
lezebre

hello,

i got two problems getting the newsletter to work.
1.) no unsubscribe form on the my document (35) .
My call at the page is [!TXNewsletters!] according the description in the snippet. Is this the right call?
The module configuration is: &emailFrom=Sending Email;text;[email protected] &newslettersBaseId=Newsletters directory (id);text;19 &nbPerPage=Item per page;text;15 &idPageSubscribe=Page Subscribe;text;15 &idPageUnsubscribe=Page Unsubscribe;text;35
Adding to the newsletter works fine.
What went wrong?

2.) I’m not able to send newsletters (documentfolder(19) contains a test-newsletter). For some securityreason i’m not able to send mails outside the webserver. I have to set the f-flag (phpmail) with a separate sender-email. as far as i know txNewsletter uses phpmail. but where to set the f-flag?

thanks, for you help.

le block

me again,

i removed the snippet and module completly from backend plus deleted the files from asset/modules/txnewsletters/..
then installed the TXnewsletters carefully along the readme. no result.

1. The page for unsubscribing the newsletter still shows no form. The call is [!TXNewsletters!].
2. Can’t send any mail

le  block