I've been asked by several people if I know of a good OpenSource (free) E-Newsletter engine. Well I've been using for myself a self-hacked plugin for wordpress, which I can live with for my personal blog but if I want to implement something bigger, like a ministry newsletter, I would like to have something more robust and user friendly.
I'm just about to try and develop one, but before I head into this I thought it would be a good idea to ask you guys, because maybe there's something really good out there that everyone uses and I'm still in the dark about it..
"There are things that you don't know that you don't know!"
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newsletter
For some of the projects I do I use phplist which offers a very good system for signing up for emails (double opt in and out of the mailing list) you can manage lots of mailing lists and does html emails. It is a good, solid piece of web software!!
Drupal
Drupal offers the Simplenews and EPublish modules for newsletter creation and distribution.
eNews tools
Some information:
http://www.alderconsulting.com/enews.html
Free tools:
Mailman
phplist
Greetings from the MatriX,
neo
e-newsletter thanks
Thank you guys. I had a good look at phplist and I think that is what I was looking for... "I was blind and now I see"...
But if you have any more sugestions please post them here. I'll try them out also and it could help others.
newsletter - how is it going?
Is the stuff working out for you? Maybe you could write a little report or so. I guess some might be interested in that.
Well, to be honest, I am. We are actualy looking for something like that as well. I just didn't had the time to look into that. But at one piont I will try out phplist and see if that's what we're looking for.
Greetings from the MatriX,
neo
PHPLIST - Just about to go live
I tested it on my home server and it is great. I'm just about to put it live on the webhost. It supports several lists, "customizable" and easy to use. I think it's all I needed. As soon as I put it live I'll post some more comments here.
There's a live demo on the PHPLIST website - http://www.phplist.com/demo
Re: PHPLIST - Just about to go live
Hi,
I know about the online demo version. However, a demo and actualy working with a piece is software can be very different. I experienced that with a CMS online demo and then working with that.
So, first of all, it's great that you found something that is doing it for you. But it would be even better if you could write a little report what your are doing, what are the difficulties, what is great about the software, etc. I guess that would serve us all then.
Greetings from the MatriX,
neo
This is old but...
Hi again, Alex.
Long time since Lonavala!
Just wanted to alert you and others that Vertical Response is free for all non-profits. This is not just US ones but international
If you are in doubt, then email them directly on this, as I have done. They just need to know your official non-profit status and you're off and running.
I don't think it's an unlimited account, or such, but it's a great start.
I found this out when I did some reseach on the Network For Good project (http://www.groundspring.org/services/dms.cfm) - which is pretty amazing in itself!!
Cheers,
-Alister
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