I am looking for a new way for us to send out our newsletter. We have a new e-mail every week, and the way it's done now, is not very good. Almost every time there are problems with either sending the mail, with the layout or with the content.
As it is now, we have one template where some content from our articles is shown.
The way we actually send out the mail, is by activation a robot of some sort that looks in Umbraco for members with newsletter checked. This is done out side Umbraco.
The question is, if the ultrasimplemailer 1 or 2 (or another umbraco newsletter module) is suitable for sending out newsletter for ~40.000 recievers?
For solid mass mailing with many receipients, I'd recommend a "real" newsletter system like Campaign Monitor or likewise. Sending out newsletters is almost rocket science when it comes to SPAM ruling, proper DNS setups (for sender confirmation), etc. And with 10k+ subscribers, managing OOO replies, dead mail adresses, etc. also becomes quite important and an area where a newsletter system is more than just the nobrainer it is to send mails (which is easy, almost no matter the number)
I have been looking at campaignmonitor, and it seems like a good tool. But I would however like to keep it in-house (free/minimum-cost), so I will keep looking...
Excuse me for intruding on your topic, but I'm running an Umbraco 3 site and trying out the "old" UltrasimpleMailer, but despite following the instructions in the wiki-article, the documents (newsletters) I create under content are blank.. all I get when I preview or send a test-letter is either blank or if I've put something hard coded in the template.
Any ideas what I might be doing wrong?
* I've created a datatype called newsletter, using the ultrasimplemailer as the rendercontrol
* I've created a document type called NewsletterDocType with one tab and a Newsletter property.
* I've set up the structure according to the instructions
.. but.. when I create a newsletter in the content area and write some stuff in the mail-tab, it still comes back as a "blank" item when previewing or testing..
I simply cannot work this out.. tried two different step by step instructions and I've re-done this five-six times (i.e. started over from scratch), but I keep getting the same results.
I think you are forgetting to rertrieve the value from your property in the template?
In your template for the newsletter add the following:
Now you should be able to get the content from the editor.
Hope this helps.[/quote]
First of all, thanks for the Ultra-quick reply :)
Unfortunately, I can't seem to get my head bent around this yet.. Imagine I have a setup identical to what's described in the step-by-step process, thus my property is called simply "mail".
I inserted the above Umbraco-command into my Newsletter-template and went on to create a new Newsletter in the content-area. (since for this part I used the wiki as an example, my property is simply called "mail", which I replaced "TheNameOfYourProperty" with).
Create > NewsletterDocType
Faced with two tabs on the right:
mail and properties
The mail-tab is where the text-editor of the UltrasimpleMailer is rendered, and it holds my template. This is also where I type my text.
Once a small test-message is typed, I press Preview, and all I get is a blank white page. :(
UltraSimpleMailer (2?)
Hi all,
My first post ;-)
I am looking for a new way for us to send out our newsletter. We have a new e-mail every week, and the way it's done now, is not very good. Almost every time there are problems with either sending the mail, with the layout or with the content.
As it is now, we have one template where some content from our articles is shown.
The way we actually send out the mail, is by activation a robot of some sort that looks in Umbraco for members with newsletter checked. This is done out side Umbraco.
The question is, if the ultrasimplemailer 1 or 2 (or another umbraco newsletter module) is suitable for sending out newsletter for ~40.000 recievers?
Any ideas on how we can handle this best?
Regards,
Peter Lippert
bilzonen.dk
Hi Peter,
I'm working on a new mailer for umbraco v4. I should have a version ready this month. Keep an eye nibble.be if you want to know more.
Cheers,
Tim
For solid mass mailing with many receipients, I'd recommend a "real" newsletter system like Campaign Monitor or likewise. Sending out newsletters is almost rocket science when it comes to SPAM ruling, proper DNS setups (for sender confirmation), etc. And with 10k+ subscribers, managing OOO replies, dead mail adresses, etc. also becomes quite important and an area where a newsletter system is more than just the nobrainer it is to send mails (which is easy, almost no matter the number)
Hey
I have been looking at campaignmonitor, and it seems like a good tool. But I would however like to keep it in-house (free/minimum-cost), so I will keep looking...
I will keep my eyes open at nibble.be ;-)
Thanks!
Excuse me for intruding on your topic, but I'm running an Umbraco 3 site and trying out the "old" UltrasimpleMailer, but despite following the instructions in the wiki-article, the documents (newsletters) I create under content are blank.. all I get when I preview or send a test-letter is either blank or if I've put something hard coded in the template.
Any ideas what I might be doing wrong?
* I've created a datatype called newsletter, using the ultrasimplemailer as the rendercontrol
* I've created a document type called NewsletterDocType with one tab and a Newsletter property.
* I've set up the structure according to the instructions
.. but.. when I create a newsletter in the content area and write some stuff in the mail-tab, it still comes back as a "blank" item when previewing or testing..
I simply cannot work this out.. tried two different step by step instructions and I've re-done this five-six times (i.e. started over from scratch), but I keep getting the same results.
Hey Daniel,
I think you are forgetting to rertrieve the value from your property in the template?
In your template for the newsletter add the following:
Now you should be able to get the content from the editor.
Hope this helps.
[quote=Jasko]Hey Daniel,
I think you are forgetting to rertrieve the value from your property in the template?
In your template for the newsletter add the following:
Now you should be able to get the content from the editor.
Hope this helps.[/quote]
First of all, thanks for the Ultra-quick reply :)
Unfortunately, I can't seem to get my head bent around this yet.. Imagine I have a setup identical to what's described in the step-by-step process, thus my property is called simply "mail".
I inserted the above Umbraco-command into my Newsletter-template and went on to create a new Newsletter in the content-area. (since for this part I used the wiki as an example, my property is simply called "mail", which I replaced "TheNameOfYourProperty" with).
Create > NewsletterDocType
Faced with two tabs on the right:
mail and properties
The mail-tab is where the text-editor of the UltrasimpleMailer is rendered, and it holds my template. This is also where I type my text.
Once a small test-message is typed, I press Preview, and all I get is a blank white page. :(
And you are positive that you have selected the template under "properties" for the node?
You have to promise not to laugh, and I'll explain how this finally came together.
I hadn't PUBLISHED, I had only SAVED the newsletter when trying to preview. I tried publishing then preview and voila, it worked.
I guess every day is a new chance to look silly on the internets!
Thanks for your assistance :)
Hehe, oh well it happens for everyone. No need to be embarrased :)
[quote=tim]Hi Peter,
I'm working on a new mailer for umbraco v4. I should have a version ready this month. Keep an eye nibble.be if you want to know more.
Cheers,
Tim[/quote]
Hi Tim,
I am looking forward to the solution you are working on for nesletter. Could you please tell me how can i follow that?
I'm interested, too.
@satjinder , I should release a first version shortly after the v4.0.1 release.
Will post it on nibble.be
Posted a first version
http://www.nibble.be/?p=63
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