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

kvnmcwebn · 2007-04-23 19:43:29

Hi Ben,
I had been trying it that way initially but as it wasnt working i though i was doing something wrong – thanks for clarifying.
I’ve followed your steps to the letter and the messages sent with a form/template still arive blank.
1)Heres what we know, if i send a message without a form then they arrive ok.
2)No messages have ever made it to a webmail address, not even into junk folders, -default or with a form/template.
3) Doesnt matter if the template is text, html or multi part.
4) Dosnt matter what the form type is …article, misc or whatever.

There must be a bug somewhere, what does the languages plugin do? When i had installed textpattern initially there was a corrupt language table, i had to empty it with php my admin. Could that have an impact. Maybe its with my hosting provider.

thanks for your patience

-kevin

kvnmcwebn · 2007-04-26 03:14:42

im going to try a new host, ill let you now how it goes.

squaredeye · 2007-04-28 11:51:47

Can someone give me a quick clue why the following list of three people is only producing two subscribers when bulk uploaded?

The two subscribers are the first persons email and the default test.

Aeon|aeon_blues@nothing.com|walk list|Blues|||||||||
Alexis|alexisface@nothing.com|walk list|face|||||||||
Amanda|amandamilholland@nothing.com|walk list|milholland|||||||||

benbruce · 2007-04-30 03:43:17

ma_smith,

When I …

copied and pasted your sample to a text file
uploaded the file
bulk uploaded in Postmaster

… I got all three subscribers with their data correctly inserted.

First try at an answer: do you have any of those email addresses previously inserted? Postmaster uses the email address as a unique key, which means that if it already exists in the database, it will not be added again in a separate row (that insertion is ignored).

Ben

Last edited by benbruce (2007-04-30 03:44:38)

squaredeye · 2007-05-03 10:49:48

Ben,
Thanks. Forgive me for a really simple question here.
What am I meant to call the form in presentation > forms for email on post. This is a different model than the last email on post plugin and I’m trying to grapple with it at first :) thanks.

Matthew

benbruce · 2007-05-03 18:09:58

ma_smith,

It’s the same model, actually, though things have definitely changed. You’re using the form you create in PRESENTATION > FORMS as the template for your email (see the manual for better info on that). Call it whatever you want (let’s say, “newsletter”).

Now for the changes: With Postmaster, you can have multiple lists, and a different form (or the same form) for each one. But you DO have to associate the form with the list.

This is done in EXTENSIONS > POSTMASTER > LISTS
click EDIT next to the list you want
on the edit page, enter the name of your form in the “Form:” field — very much like you used to do with EOP

That’s it. Now, when you want to send an email to that list, you do so from the Write tab. Depending on what list you select there, Postmaster will build the emails from the form associated with the list.

Does that help?

Ben

simplyann · 2007-05-04 22:45:33

I don’t know if this has been already mentioned – maybe it’s just my domain config – but I can only send out one email per hour. The organization has several important notices that come up throughout a day, so I was wondering if there’s a way to fix this.

Thanks for an amazing plugin!

yeah · 2007-05-05 12:02:14

great plugin…just one problem. if i subscribe twice with the same adress, there is a very ugly php-message that says: tag_error <txp:zem_contact to=“XXX@XXX.XXX” label=“In Newsletter eintragen / austragen” copysender=“1” thanks=“Die Änderung wurde übernommen. Vielen Dank.”> -> Textpattern Warning: Duplicate entry ‘XXX@XXX.XXX’ for key 2
INSERT INTO bab_pm_subscribers values (‘’,’‘,‘XXX@XXX.XXX’,‘newsletter’,’‘,’‘,’‘,’‘,’‘,’‘,’‘,’‘,’‘,’‘,’‘,’‘,‘e6566cfef75ca03ae25ee9124eddca88’) on line 84
is this my fault?

benbruce · 2007-05-05 21:28:30

yeah,

Postmaster will not enter the same address twice. I think you’re seeing the error message because your TXP is set to “Testing” or maybe “Production” (not too sure about what those imply) — those don’t usually show up.

Is there some reason you’re trying to enter the same address twice?

Ben

yeah · 2007-05-06 12:13:12

thanx, it was the testing-setting.

again, great plugin!!!

dl33 · 2007-05-07 17:01:27

Hi all,
i just made the mistake of commenting on benbruce’s contact page; of course that didn’t get me anywhere but hey…
I am wondering how I can use a checkbox within a normal contact form to either sign up for a newsletter or not. If the user leaves the box ticked, the will be signed up, otherwise the won’t. I have tried lots of values for zemDoSubscribe_no (No, nein, 0, no…) yet the user is always signed up, no matter whether the checkbox is ticked or not.
My code is:
<txp:zem_contact to="email" thanks_form="kontakt_sent" copysender="yes" from="email" label=""> <txp:zem_contact_text label="Ihr Name" min=3 name="zemSubscriberName" /> <txp:zem_contact_email name="zemSubscriberEmail"/> <txp:zem_contact_text label="Betreff" min=3 /> <txp:zem_contact_textarea label="Ihre Nachricht" /> <div class="checkbox"> <txp:zem_contact_checkbox checked="yes" name="zemDoSubscribe" required="no" label="Ja, schicken Sie mir den Hof&Art Newsletter per email." /> </div> <txp:zem_contact_submit label="Verschicken" />
</txp:zem_contact>

How do I get this to work?
Thanks, dl33
Bytheway: @benbruce: Can you please delete my two comments on your contact page… Thanks;-)

Last edited by dl33 (2007-05-07 17:07:04)

benbruce · 2007-05-08 03:32:15

dl33,

Check out this page in the Manual for help. You need to use dropdown field for now, like this:

<txp:zem_contact_select list="Subscribe, No" selected="Subscribe" name="zemDoSubscribe" label="Subscribe to the newsletter:" />

Ben

Last edited by benbruce (2007-05-08 03:32:43)

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