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bborn / lewsnetter

E-mail marketing application (create and send e-mail newsletter via SES). Includes subscription management, delivery, bounce and complaint notification, templates, and some stats.

MIT License

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Sendy #7

Closed tcurdt closed 8 years ago

tcurdt commented 8 years ago

Seems like this is the open source version of Sendy. Would be great to list the features and compare the status to Sendy.

tcurdt commented 8 years ago

That said: no commits for a year - is this project abandoned?

bborn commented 8 years ago

It's not abandoned; we use it to send about 30,000 emails a week for our two sites. Just haven't really needed to update anything in a while, and haven't seen a whole lot of interest from the community. The UI is still pretty basic, but everything works:

Subscriptions (sub/unsub with confirmations, CSV import)
Delivery/bounce/complaint tracking
AWS SES backend (no others yet)
Templates with string interpolations
Basic stats (deliveries, opens, no clicks tracking at the moment, but not hard to implement)
Campaign previews
Easy deploy to heroku

tcurdt commented 8 years ago

Oh - that's good news :)

Yeah, click tracking sounds easy. Just wrap all links to a unique redirect on the machine and then track that - but then it needs to withstand the surge of traffic.

Instead I am wondering how the opens tracking works though. Before Gmail implemented the image caching thing people used unique image references - but now? Looks like lewsnetter uses that, too.

https://github.com/bborn/lewsnetter/blob/master/app/controllers/deliveries_controller.rb

Does this still work OK with Gmail?

Would be nice to have this as easy to install via docker. Would you accept a pull request for that? You run in completely on Heroku?

cristiancvanega commented 8 years ago

It would be great to implement these features: Tracking. Other services such as mail delivery mandrillapp.

bborn commented 8 years ago

@tcurdt open tracking is through a hidden img tag (are there better ways to do it?). From what I can read, Gmail's image caching will only affect repeat open counts (https://blog.mailchimp.com/how-gmails-image-caching-affects-open-tracking/).

I would definitely accept a pull request to install via Docker. I run completely on Heroku (using SES, obviously, for sending the e-mails). I also use HireFire (https://www.hirefire.io/) to auto-scale my worker processes (but you could manage them any way you like).

bborn commented 8 years ago

@cristiancvanega I'd love to see other backend options. Right now it's sort of hard-coded to use the SES backend, so we'd need to abstract that part a little to allow use of any email service. It's unlikely I'll get to this, though, because it's not my use-case. Happy to look at pull requests.