Which Newsletter module to choose?

Hi all.

For our site, we need a newsletter service. One user subscribe himself to the newsletter by filling a form, and then he receives email with news (lol).
I found 3 major modules to have this:

KoopsMailinglistX
TXNewsletters
Easy Newsletter

Now, they seem to have little problems, or at least this is what I got by reading the support thread for them.

If anyone uses them, what do you prefer and why did you choose that?
I’m concerned with SECURITY, with combating fake users of newsletters and with having a template for the emails (the best thing is to create page for news and then send them by emails).

Sorry for my english, and thanks in advance!

I use the perl script DADA Mail, with a simple module to load its management interface into the Manager. Works great. The only downside is that it has a horrendous configuration file, but there’s actually only a few lines that need to be edited to configure it to work.

I know, I did the port of KoopsMailinglist to MODx, but found it lacking in too many areas.

Thank you, I’ll take a look at it, and post back if I have questions.

How did you import the manager interface with a module?

I can’t figure it out...

I got it with

echo(’<iframe src="myAddress" height="100%" width="100%">
Text for browsers which don’t support Iframe
</iframe>’);

lol

Is there a cleaner and better way to get this?

Since the right "workspace" section of the Manager is already a frame, you don’t need to do that. Take a look at one of the .php files in manager/actions. When creating a new module, all you need to do is create a page as if it were stand-alone. Usually I just have the basic layout of the frame, then inline php to include the rest of the php code for actually running the module. http://www.sottwell.com/create-module.html

With DADA Mail, all I did was provide a link to pull the DADA script’s output into the frame.

I had forgotten, though, that DADA doesn’t run on Solaris, so I had to switch that client to the PHPList script. I have it running as a separate script from MODx, which seems to have made the client happy since they do frequent newsletters but rarely modify their site, and the secretary does the newsletter anyway, so I haven’t tried to integrate it. Another difference is that this client does not want auto-registration; they have a contact form and anyone requesting to join the list is contacted and manually added to the list. They do not want a web login for their site. So my choice probably shouldn’t influence yours all that much.