It might be useful enough if the newsletter modules can send an email to a distribution server (mailing list or newsletter service).

I agree that we don't want to reinvent the wheel.

- B


On Aug 21, 2008, at 12:05 PM, Will Scheidegger wrote:

I asked myself this question more than once. The main reason for a Magnolia newsletter module would definitely be: "Simple is beautiful". I want a simple system for our users - maybe not featuring all the bells and whistles of emarys.com & competitors. They should only have to deal with one tool. There should be one place where the user info is stored. The users should eventually be able to create their news once (in Magnolia) and have it display on the website _and_ mailed out to the recipients.

I was hoping to find a mature open source newsletter tool that one could integrate into magnolia (like openwfe is integrated). Unfortunately I have not found anything that made me jump into it. Descriptions like "...OpenEMM is mainly written in Java and Python and employs leading edge Java frameworks like Hibernate, Spring and Struts. Some performance-sensitive code is written in C." give me the shivers! ;-)

But for the enterprise market, I'm sure a professional tool is better suited for the task.

will

On 21.08.2008, at 17:24, Ruben Reusser wrote:

Is magnolia really the right system for distributing newsletters? I can see the authoring aspect of magnolia being handy but the send/ track/report part? There are other tools out there that do that already such as http://www.openemm.org/

Ruben

Will Scheidegger wrote:
I know, I know... we're still working on cleaning up our shop module prototype so the code can be added to the Magnolia environment (Thanks Boris for the invitation!), and here we are proposing already the next big chunk of work. But hey... we need it. And instead of again building a newsletter mechanism for a specific customer why not try to create something open, something flexible, something that might cover more than just that one customers needs?

So here we go again - it's only a proposal, it has not even been proofread, but I'm more than happy to receive your feedback as early as possible. And if anyone out there is interested in joining the development: Please do!

http://www.fastforward.ch/web/ff/dokumentation/entwickler/magnolia-newsletter-module.html

will

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