Mail manager

My existing Phorum installation works great, and I want to add a mail manager to my site so people can sign up for a newsletter. I don't have a particular mail manager in mind but whatever I get, I'd want it integrated with Phorum. For example, when someone registers for our message board, they would see a checkbox they can use to opt in for the newsletter (or different newsletters, if we offer more than one). People should also be able to use "My Control Center" in the forum to change their newsletter subscriptions. I'm willing to pay for software and/or services to get this done (feel free to contact me), but I thought I would start by seeking suggestions here on the assumption there are some mail manager solutions that will integrate with Phorum more easily than others.

You probably have sendmail on the system. That cuts it down.

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On my own board, I have a simple field for storing this setting for the users. The mail that I have to send is maybe once a year a kind of newsletter. What I do when it's time for that newslettter is select all the mail addresses from the database for which the newsletter option is enabled. After that, I use the program "bulkmail" (on UNIX) to send out my newsletter. So it's mainly manual processing that I do. Maybe this is an option for you as well, depending on the nature of the mail system that you had in mind.

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Has anyone connected Phorum to PHPList? It might be worth exporting the users (I'd try using phpMyAdmin) then importing them into that or trying to get them to talk to each other. I'm going to have a read of their section ofIntegrating phplist With Other Packages and see if I can get some ideas

Edited - PHPlist has a import emails from a remote database feature, brilliant! It seems to have the ability to include an XML feed into the email too i.e. perhaps it could be used for a weekly digest email.


Mark



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 11/28/2006 04:47AM by MarkFresh.

phplist is quite nice. I think you'd have to run the import from phorum user db right before sending any announcements through phplist. I believe phplist will ignore the ones that are already in it's list.

The disadvantage of this is that users now have to manage their preferences in 2 areas. They'll have their phorum controls and they'll have to unsubscribe from the mailing lists through phplist.

Ideally someone would make a module which integrates these features into the phorum user management area...

Im converting some lists I have on other sites I manage to phplist and will be converting some of their message boards to phorum so, time permitting, I might look into creating such a solution... I've not written a phorum mod from scratch so I'm not promissing that I'll have any success...if someone else gets around to it first, that'd be wonderful.