[archived] Postmaster -- A simple email-on-post / newsletter manager

maniqui · 2007-01-25 03:55:03

benbruce wrote:

Can you go here (a few posts back) and do me the favor of following the instructions in that post?

Ben, thanks for your answers and sorry for this late reply.

I have tried deleting everything (tables and plug-in) and re-installing from scratch.
Nothing changed.
But I have good news: I have found the problem. This plug-in doesn’t seems to work (at least, for me) with Graeme’s gbp_permanent_links plug-in

I have disabled that plug-in and tried the subscription form and the subscriber has been added to the database. I have enabled gbp_permanent_links plug-in again, tested the form and, of course, it didn’t work this second time.

I have tried wrapping the subscription form inside <txp:gbp_disable_permlinks></txp:gbp_disable_permlinks> but that didn’t make any difference at all.

Now, at this moment, while writing this post, I have found out a few things more…

Look at this three outputted forms/scenarios

1. This form/scenario didn’t work:
gbp_permanent_links enabled, pap_contact_cleaner enabled

<form method="post" class="zemContactForm" action="/">
<fieldset>
<legend>¡Suscribite!</legend>
<input type="hidden" name="zem_contact_nonce" value="db1936fcedd64c3cc040afde70c1e26b" />
<input type="hidden" name="zem_contact_form_id" value="3cbcf81a66963d0735d85b7bb701f51d" />
<label for="zemSubscriberName" class="zemRequired zemSubscriberName">Tu nombre:</label><br /><input type="text" id="zemSubscriberName" class="zemRequired" name="zemSubscriberName" value="" maxlength="100" /><br />
<label for="zemSubscriberEmail" class="zemRequired zemSubscriberEmail">Tu e-mail:</label><br /><input type="text" id="zemSubscriberEmail" class="zemRequired" name="zemSubscriberEmail" value="" maxlength="100" /><br />
<input type="hidden" name="zemSubscriberLists" value="default" />
<input type="submit" class="zemSubmit" name="zem_contact_submit" value="Enviar" />
</fieldset>
</form>

2. This form/scenario didn’t work:
gbp_permanent_links enabled, pap_contact_cleaner disabled

<form method="post" class="zemContactForm" action="/">
<fieldset>
<legend>¡Suscribite!</legend>
<input type="hidden" name="zem_contact_nonce" value="2c889666305329700c338bbecceb4b37" />
<input type="hidden" name="zem_contact_form_id" value="3cbcf81a66963d0735d85b7bb701f51d" />
<label for="zemSubscriberName" class="zemRequired zemSubscriberName">Tu nombre:</label><br /><input type="text" id="zemSubscriberName" class="zemRequired" name="zemSubscriberName" value="" maxlength="100" /><br />
<label for="zemSubscriberEmail" class="zemRequired zemSubscriberEmail">Tu e-mail:</label><br /><input type="text" id="zemSubscriberEmail" class="zemRequired" name="zemSubscriberEmail" value="" maxlength="100" /><br />
<input type="hidden" name="zemSubscriberLists" value="default" />
<input type="submit" class="zemSubmit" name="zem_contact_submit" value="Enviar" />
</fieldset>
</form>
</div>

3. This form/scenario worked fine!:
gbp_permanent_links disabled, pap_contact_cleaner enabled

<form method="post" class="zemContactForm" action="/">
<fieldset>
<legend>¡Suscribite!</legend>
<input type="hidden" name="zem_contact_nonce" value="0ec4ab58a9c52ec130ea45d727dabac1" />
<input type="hidden" name="zem_contact_form_id" value="3cbcf81a66963d0735d85b7bb701f51d" />
<label for="zemSubscriberName" class="zemRequired zemSubscriberName">Tu nombre:</label><br /><input type="text" id="zemSubscriberName" class="zemRequired" name="zemSubscriberName" value="" maxlength="100" /><br />
<label for="zemSubscriberEmail" class="zemRequired zemSubscriberEmail">Tu e-mail:</label><br /><input type="text" id="zemSubscriberEmail" class="zemRequired" name="zemSubscriberEmail" value="" maxlength="100" /><br />
<input type="hidden" name="zemSubscriberLists" value="default" />
<input type="submit" class="zemSubmit" name="zem_contact_submit" value="Enviar" />
<div style="visibility: hidden"><input type="text" name="phone" value="" id="phone" /><br /><input type="text" name="mail" value="" id="mail" /></div>
</fieldset>
</form>

Before continuing, take a look at form/scenario 1: both gbp_permanent_links and pap_contact_cleaner are enabled. But in the outputted form, there isn’t the code added by pap_contact_cleaner.
You may think: how is this related to Postmaster?

Well, in that scenario, as I said in my previous post, e-mail confirming subscriptions are being sent but the subscription isn’t being made into the database.
Two weird things to notice in scenario 1:

the e-mail is being successfully sent, although pap_contact_cleaner is enabled but the “dummy” code isn’t being added.
again, the subscription isn’t being made into the database

Form/scenario 2 was just a test, disabling pap_contact_cleaner. It didn’t work and I have nothing important to add.

Now, in form/scenario 3, with gbp_permanent_link disabled and pap_contact_cleaner enabled, things worked as expected.

Conclusion: I don’t know what’s going on! You tell me! :D
Thanks in advance. I will be trying few more things (like totally deleting pap_contact_cleaner) to see what happens.

maniqui · 2007-01-25 04:41:57

I have tried both deleting pap_contact_cleaner and wrapping the subscription and subscription/contact form with <txp:gbp_disable_permlinks> without success.

edit:
Finally, and also after deleting pap_contact_cleaner, I have tried disabling gbp_permanent_links plug-in and the subscription did work like a charm.

So, I may conclude that there is something between gbp_permanent_link/Postmaster (and maybe, ZCR), and seems to not be related to pap_contact_cleaner.

Last edited by maniqui (2007-01-25 04:46:19)

benbruce · 2007-01-29 18:40:15

maniqui,

thanks for all of your research on this.

couple of quick thoughts:

the confirmation email is sent by ZCR, not PM. So it sounds like the permlink plugin is working fine with ZCR, but not allowing PM to do its thing. Hm.
no idea why PM and Graeme’s plugin wouldn’t work together. I’ll add that to the manual.

Ben

Last edited by benbruce (2007-01-29 18:46:19)

graeme · 2007-02-05 21:08:03

I’m aware of the issues between gbp_permanent_links and postmaster/pap_contact_cleaner. Working on a fix.

duchamp · 2007-02-08 14:44:26

Please, I need some help with this. I can’t make it work!

I’ve Textpattern 4.0.4 with zem_contact_reborn 4.0.3.17, zem_contact_lang 4.0.3.03 and pap_contact_cleaner 0.1.
I installed and activated Postmaster_library 0.1 and Postmaster 0.3
Modified the default user/subscriber and added 2 new subscribers (all with name, email and a list asociated)
Modified the “default” list (just change the email and put the name of a form that I’m planning to use for the Newsletters, ofcourse that form exists!)
Open the Write Tab, write a new post, save, and when the Lists Module appear I select the default list, select YES and save … wait a few seconds and the PopUp is launched (Please don’t close….) another few seconds and “Your mailing is complete. You may now close this window.”

Everything seems to be ok, but the mailing never arrived to any of the three subscribers (three different email accounts that I’m using daily).

What I’m doing wrong?

Just in case, my website main contact form is working good with zem_contact_reborn 4.0.3.18

… Thx in advance!

UPDATE: I’ve updated both the zem_contact_reborn 4.0.3.18 and zem_contact_lang 4.0.3.5, but nothing happends! The emails/newsletters never arrived … :(

Last edited by duchamp (2007-02-08 19:40:58)

benbruce · 2007-02-09 17:04:18

duchamp,

Is the list associated with your subscribers “default”?
What happens if you do the simplest version of the installation (ie, follow the instructions here) without any forms or any complexity? Does the email arrive?
What happens if you choose “Test” and not “Yes” on the write tab? Does the mail arrive to your admin email address?

Those are just some first thoughts at figuring out what’s wrong.

Ben

duchamp · 2007-02-09 19:02:29

benbruce wrote:

duchamp,

Is the list associated with your subscribers “default”?

Yes, each subscriber is asociated only with the “default” list

What happens if you do the simplest version of the installation (ie, follow the instructions here) without any forms or any complexity? Does the email arrive?

I’ve folowed that tutorial to start but as I said before, nothing is send it

What happens if you choose “Test” and not “Yes” on the write tab? Does the mail arrive to your admin email address?

Nope, nothing is send it …

Those are just some first thoughts at figuring out what’s wrong. Ben

————————————————————————————-

I appreciate your help!
I can’t imagine what could be wrong here.
I opened the server error_logs file but there’s nothing wrong asociated with postmaster or something related to textpattern.

PS: A few minutes ago I’ve installed PHPList and works good, but if I can solve the troubles with Postmaster I will be happy to manage the Newsletters through Textpattern! I wish that!

Last edited by duchamp (2007-02-09 20:08:57)

benbruce · 2007-02-09 19:22:54

duchamp,

When you go into TXP> EXTENSIONS > POSTMASTER > SUBSCRIBERS and click EDIT next to a subscriber’s name … do you see the email address you entered for them in the appropriate field?

Same with TXP> EXTENSIONS > POSTMASTER > LISTS and click EDIT next to a list’s name … do you see your admin email address in the appropriate field?

I’m just wondering if the information you entered was actually saved to the database?

Ben

duchamp · 2007-02-09 20:04:53

benbruce wrote:

duchamp,

When you go into TXP> EXTENSIONS > POSTMASTER > SUBSCRIBERS and click EDIT next to a subscriber’s name … do you see the email address you entered for them in the appropriate field?

Yes, everything looks in its right place (all custom fields 1 to 10 are empty)

Same with TXP> EXTENSIONS > POSTMASTER > LISTS and click EDIT next to a list’s name … do you see your admin email address in the appropriate field?

Everything seems to be allright, the only info that I’m not sure what to write is the “Unsubscribe Url:” I wrote a non existent url there

I’m just wondering if the information you entered was actually saved to the database?

I checked that through PHPMyAdmin, there are two tables: bab_pm_list_prefs and bab_pm_subscribers
both with all the right information about lists and subscribers

Last edited by duchamp (2007-02-09 20:07:43)

duchamp · 2007-02-09 20:27:32

Just in case, this are all the Plugins in use:

ajw_clean_feed 0.2
ebl_BatchUpload 1.0
gbp_admin_library 0.3
gbp_permanent_links 0.9
glx_admin_image 2006.2
pap_contact_cleaner 0.1
Postmaster 0.3
Postmaster_library 0.1
upm_image 0.4.5
upm_img_popper 1.1
upm_quicktags 0.4.3
zem_contact_lang 4.0.3.5
zem_contact_reborn 4.0.3.18

I’ve tried to send some Tests Mails with gbp_permanent_links 0.9 and pap_contact_cleaner 0.1 turned off but there’s no difference, emails aren’t send, I mean … the pop-up opens and the message says that all was good, but emails never arrives at destiny … the admin email is my main email account (that also is in the list of subscribers) the other emails are active gmail & yahoo accounts …

What else? How to trace this to found the error?

Thx

WebKat · 2007-02-14 04:17:18

I apologize in advance for asking what may be a dumb question, without reading 16 pages of forum posts, but it’s a simple question and will let me know if this is the plugin for me (if it is, then I’ll read the 16 pages—promise!)

For my mom’s website, we want visitors to be able to subscribe to receive notice (preferably with the text of the article) when new articles are posted to the Events section—and ONLY the Events section. We don’t want people being notified every time any new article is posted. Does Postmaster support this?

Also, for my personal site… does this plugin allow you to do a mailing list that only sends out the mail that you write, not any kind of article notification? Thanks in advance.

benbruce · 2007-02-14 17:51:55

OpalCat,

Postmaster is capable of sending what you want¹ — but the only caveat is that it’s not “section-aware”. You manually choose to email whenever you want (so in your case, you would only send mail when you entered a new Event).

You can set up the emails however you like; they’re totally customizable.

Here is the manual/download link for more information (there is a lot there).

Duchamp,

Sorry I haven’t been able to help you more. I can’t think of any reason — I suspect there’s some piece of info missing. But there is a known issue with the permanent links plugin that is being worked on by Graeme.

Ben

¹ This is assuming that the Events plugin uses the same article database. I think it does, but I’ve never looked at the plugin myself so I don’t know for sure.

duchamp · 2007-02-14 18:17:45

benbruce wrote:

Duchamp, Sorry I haven’t been able to help you more. I can’t think of any reason — I suspect there’s some piece of info missing. But there is a known issue with the permanent links plugin that is being worked on by Graeme.

OK Don’t worry, I will try with a fresh textpattern installation in other domain and host. Thx!

mrdale · 2007-02-28 22:40:40

>benbruce

I wonder if it might be better to use a standard CSV for the import/export format? Might make importing from other software easier.

decoderltd · 2007-03-02 18:17:12

I need to add a series of e-cards to a site I’m working on, but was unsure what plug-in would work best. I thought that zem_contact_reborn might work (and it might!), but it was also suggested that Postmaster could work it’s magic.

The type of card I was looking at would feature on a promotional page, the visitor/sender would fill out a TO, FROM and MESSAGE field. The card would include a link back to the page as a way of increasing traffic/interest. Ideally the card would be sent as a html email but spam prevention would probably cut it’s journey short. Therefore, I think a text only email would be sent to the recipient which then links to the card displayed within a web browser.

Hope all that makes sense! Anyone think this could be a job for Postmaster?

Last edited by decoderltd (2007-03-02 18:17:52)

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