Products.EasyNewsletter

Powerful newsletter/mailing addon for Plone


Keywords
Plone, Newsletter, Mailing, Email, Mailinglist, cms, hacktoberfest, newsletter-management, python
License
GPL-2.0+
Install
pip install Products.EasyNewsletter==3.0b2

Documentation

EasyNewsletter

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EasyNewsletter is a simple but powerful newsletter/mailing add-on for Plone.

Compatibility

  • EasyNewsletter versions >= 5.x are Plone 5.1 and above only, they are free of Archetypes and support Python 3.
  • EasyNewsletter versions >= 4.x Plone 5.1 only, they are using DX but still have Archetypes dependencies for migration.
  • For Plone versions < 5.1, use the 3.x branch and releases of EasyNewsletter!

For Python 2.7 you have to pin down html2text:

html2text = <2019.8.11

Features

  • Plain text and HTML newsletters (including images)
  • manual written newsletters/mailings
  • automatic Plonish newsletters/mailings: Utilize Plone's Collections to collect content)
  • send out daily/weekly/monthly issues automatically, based on collections (by cron or clock-server)
  • flexible templates for Collections, to generate newsletter content
  • TTW customizable output template to generate HTML newsletters
  • personalized emails
  • subscribing/ unsubscribing
  • import/export subscribers via CSV
  • use Plone Members/Groups as receivers (works also with Membrane)
  • external subscriber filtering/manipulation with plugins (filter out or add more subscribers)
  • synchronous/ asynchronous send out [currently not reimplemented, if you need this, you have to wait for future versions or fund the work on this feature]
  • external
    • subscriber sources (configured through a Zope utility) [currently not reimplemented]
    • delivery services (other than Plone MailHost) [currently not reimplemented]

Requirements

  • Plone 5.1 (tested)
  • Dexterity (Archetypes for migration)

Installation

  1. Add Products.EasyNewsletter to your buildout
  2. Run your buildout script
  3. Restart Plone
  4. Install EasyNewsletter via Plone Management Interface
  5. Add a Newsletter to the Plone site
  6. Add a "Newsletter Subscriber" portlet and select a Newsletter (To this newsletter, the subscribers will be added).

Documentation

For more documentation please visit: http://productseasynewsletter.readthedocs.io

Known Issues

  • If parts of the ENLIssue footer show up in the Plone footer, change the footer portlet view name from footer to @@footer. This issue was fixed in Plone already, but you have to manually update this in an existing site.

Source Code

Source code is at GitHub: https://github.com/collective/Products.EasyNewsletter

Translations

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Bug tracker

Issue tracker is at GitHub: https://github.com/collective/Products.EasyNewsletter/issues

ToDo

funding welcome ;)

  • async task queue for WGSI as an alternative to collective.taskqueue which will not support WGSI
  • Integration of Mosaico newsletter editor
  • External subscriber sources / delivery services
  • content migration AT >> DX

Maintainer

Contributors

  • Kai Dieffenbach: initial release
  • Andreas Jung
  • Dinu Gherman
  • Jens W. Klein
  • Peter Holzer
  • Philip Bauer
  • Thomas Massman [tmassmann]
  • Timo Stollenwerk