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

• Maik Derstappen [MrTango] md@derico.de

Contributors

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