Closed irabinovitch closed 8 years ago
Other LinuxFests events are presently using various hosted services, but these are not open source:
I think relying bulk email via Gapps would be asking for trouble. See: https://support.google.com/a/answer/166852?hl=en
If we don't move to a fully managed solution, I feel we should seriously consider using a relying service such as https://aws.amazon.com/ses/, https://www.mailgun.com/, or http://mandrill.com/.
Lets focus on the specific software to use. The MTA is something we can revisit once we have this in place.
Got 0 feedback on alternate software, so I've proceeded to migrate phplist and mailman. See the open prs in scale-chef.
calling this done. although its not completely done until we update the DNS for lists.linuxfests.org
DNS updated.
Do we actually auto-subscribe attendees via some scalereg integration? I think previously we just manually added people who checked the subscribe box when registering.
@leizleiz We previously had a cron job that would query for new registrations nightly (eg select email from attendees where can_email=1 and date>=$LAST_EXPORT) that would then get piped into phplist for auto subscription.
SCALE-Announce is currently powered by PHPList and runs on mail.linuxfests.org which run on ActUSA infrastructure. As part of #194 we need to move this as well. @lcafiero has mentioned not being a fan of the UX/UI for PHPList and asked if there are other tools we can consider.
SCALE-Announce previously was powered by mailman. Due to the size of the list mailman was choking on announcements. It also doesn't have reporting on email delivery / bounce rates and other features that are nice to have for announcements.
This ticket is to track:
Once complete don't forget to:
CC: @jhoblitt @lcafiero @hriday