Hi, all.
I have a functioning mail script that I patched together myself from different sources for sending out announcements to our membership list – fewer than 50 people. The main difference it has from the massmail module is that it sends individual mails to each subscriber, rather than putting a whole load of them in the BCC field (which spam filters tend to flag as suspect).
It runs from the front end, via an authorised-users-only page.
It’s a bit rough and ready, and far from being a seasoned scripter I am very much feeling my way in PHP; so it’s certainly not ready to go public. But if there were any interest I could try to develop it further, or share it with those who are more experienced than I.
What would need doing- Authorised users are at present hard-coded in the script; I did have it working with WB groups, but version 2.7 seems to have broken that function (because of the possibility of a user being in multiple groups?) Haven’t had time to check that.
- It’s now using FCKEditor to produce HTML mail, but ideally would produce a text-only version of the mail in parallel. (The fact it doesn’t also gives it a black mark from the spam filters.)
- You can send to “everybody” or a defined group via pull-down selection lists. But the presentation’s a bit crude. I would want the defined groups to appear only when the user selects “By group” in the first selection.
- It should probably (optionally?) incorporate Captcha.
- I don’t know how robust it is with much higher numbers of recipients. 500? 5000? To be honest, I don’t imagine it to be the right tool for someone with hundreds of subscribers, but I would hope it would handle one or two hundred.
- It’s not packaged as a WB module.
- Further down the road, it would be nice if you could also send attachments.
Any interest?
