GroupEletters - email campaigns within MODX - released

Please excuse me for butting in. I just wanted to mention Subscribe/Notify/EmailResource, as alternatives to DitsNews since they haven't come up in the discussion, and also Mark Hamstra's SubscribeMe package and Bert Oost's mChimpX.

Subscribe let's users register themselves and select tags that can be used to send things selectively. It adds them to the Subscribers group (or optionally other groups). It does require users to give a password, but it also allows them to manage their preferences (tags) and unsubscribe. IMO, just using an email address would make it too easy for hackers to mess with your subsciber's settings. http://modx.com/extras/package/usersubscriptionsignupsystem

EmailResource sends an email version of a resource with inline CSS based on user groups and tags. http://modx.com/extras/package/emailresource

Notify sends a link to a resource or a custom, editable message and (optionally) notifies Twitter and Facebook -- again based on groups and tags. http://modx.com/extras/package/notify

I don't know the details on Mark's SubscribeMe package, but it allows the option of paid subscriptions (which Subscribe does not). http://modx.com/extras/package/subscribeme

mChimpX helps you use a MailChimp campaign in MODX. http://modx.com/extras/package/mchimpx

If you want more info about any of these, please start a new thread.


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PLEASE, PLEASE specify the version of MODX you are using.
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@fdeh07 - just released beta1, can you give it a try?

@Bob - Yes there are other solutions that currently work better for production. I hope to be able to have a production release in the near future.

Thanks and please test some more.

I also can't send email to subscribers only works sending test
can't use cronmanager, use a resource with call

correct me sometimes works but I don't understand why and when

@mopmodx - It should always run on call but it may not always send out emails. It only sends out emails when:

• The Resource/Eletter is Published and marked to send
• You created a test email
• The Eletter has not finished the list - Note: you can't rerun one, duplicate it

If it is not running as described please report back with specifics of the steps you are doing and when it sends/does not send.

Thanks

My steps are:
I create the resource, configure the resource, and public resource | 2012-09-07 3:51pm / published
after visit the resource with the call http://www.domain.com/index.php?id=13

I have attached images of my test

thanks!

Now sent emails, with the subject indicated in the resource of the emailResource but with the pageTitle, publishedon and content of the resource used to send!

sendemail --> *pagetitle

settembre 04, 2012 --> *publishedon

--> *content

:(

FYI I added some features and fixed some bugs in beta3 release:

Change log:

• Added #9 CSV Import feature
• Added tabs to Subsriber and added in all fields for the window
  
• Fixed #10 Subscriber Add/Update Window issue
  
• Fixed #7 Added in city column/field to db table
  
• Added #8 German Translation - thanks luk
  

FYI 1.0RC1 has been released

Notes:
- Fixed #13 properly set the batchsize for the queue
- Corrected a date query issue which effected when a queue would send out
- Added a debug setting that will log notes to the error log
- Added basic stats #12
- Numerous database changes
- new setting: trackingPageID, useUrlTracking
- [[+trackingImage]] - for Opened

Hi jgulledge19,

very interesting component!
We are currently working on a similar MODx extra for a customer (released to the public when ready).

What was the reason to use a custom user table and not the built in user management?

Greetings,
Martin

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