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

benbruce · 2007-12-29 19:40:47

andreas,

First things first: Have you been through the tutorial, and having done that, can you add two new test subscribers and make sure that an email sends to all three subscribers (this is to make sure it’s working using all the defaults)? Make sure when you add the subscribers that you add “default” to their Subscriber List field.

Then I have two questions:

Are you selecting “Yes” on the Content > Write tab when you want to mail an email (or “Test”)?
What list are you selecting on the Content > Write tab when you want to mail an email? Do all of your subscribers have the that list in their subscriber lists field?

Ben

andreas · 2007-12-30 10:19:01

benbruce wrote:

First things first: Have you been through the tutorial,

I have. I have a working copy of Postmaster on another site and read the documentation extensively.

and having done that, can you add two new test subscribers and make sure that an email sends to all three subscribers (this is to make sure it’s working using all the defaults)? Make sure when you add the subscribers that you add “default” to their Subscriber List field.

So should I create a new list called “default”?

Are you selecting “Yes” on the Content > Write tab when you want to mail an email (or “Test”)?

I select “Yes”, see here

What list are you selecting on the Content > Write tab when you want to mail an email? Do all of your subscribers have the that list in their subscriber lists field?

I have two lists and I select them in the Write tab. See this screenshot and the subcriber list

There’s one thing I am not sure about: in the list fied, I see the name of the list, e.g. “alle-neuigkeiten” whereas in the “List” column of the subscriber list, the subscribers show the description of the list, “Alle Neuigkeiten”. This is different to what I have with the working copy of Postmaster on my other site.

But the problem remains that my test subscriber also has the description but does receive emails. (see screenshot)

Last edited by andreas (2008-01-04 07:28:53)

benbruce · 2007-12-31 06:45:42

andreas,

The List Name (what you see in the dropdown on the Content > Write tab) must match exactly the Subscriber Lists field. In your example, the dropdown list on the write tab has “alle-neuigkeiten” but your Subscriber List field has “Alle Neuigkeiten.” Change the Subscriber List field to “alle-neuigkeiten.” I can’t understand with the info I have how it’s matching one but not the others, but if you can get that fixed I’m hoping the issue will be resolved.

Ben

Vujo91 · 2007-12-31 13:14:57

Hello everyone!

This plugin is great! Nice work…

But I have BIG problem!

Everything I done, but I don’t recive any emails! :(

Script not sand any email!

I don’y know why… I was test everything… and no efect!

I was Try Test, I was try sand to all… no… no.. no emails!

Please help me!!

Can I use phpmail , or can I use SMTP??

benbruce · 2007-12-31 18:09:05

Vujo91,

Postmaster uses PHP’s mail() function, so there shouldn’t be any issue there (vs. using phpmail or SMTP, with regards to the mail being sent). If you need to use SMTP, use a different mailer (¹).

So to be clear: you followed the tutorial exactly, but when you sent a Test mail you didn’t receive anything?

¹ I do hope to be able to swap in different mailing engines in time.

Last edited by benbruce (2007-12-31 18:10:52)

andreas · 2008-01-02 11:20:28

The List Name (what you see in the dropdown on the Content > Write tab) must match exactly the Subscriber Lists field. In your example, the dropdown list on the write tab has “alle-neuigkeiten” but your Subscriber List field has “Alle Neuigkeiten.” Change the Subscriber List field to “alle-neuigkeiten.”

Ben, I’d prefer to change the list name to “Alle Neuigkeiten” rather than changing the list-name entry in every subscriber’s DB record. Are list names with two separate words ok?

I can only test this in a couple of days, I’ll report back.

benbruce · 2008-01-02 17:41:08

andreas,

It should be okay (just changing the list name) but I’m interested to hear your results using a list name with spaces.

– Ben

andreas · 2008-01-04 07:18:17

Ben, it seems to have worked: I contacted about 5 recipients and three of them have written back that they received the newsletter, the others have not given any feedback yet but as I picked those five at random, I suppose that this time the newsletter was sent alright.

Another two things (see screenshot below):

the newsletter shows three lines of technical “introduction” and
doesn’t display special characters correctly (umlauts etc.).

Do you have an idea about the first issue?

Could the second be due to the UTF-8 encoding not being understood by the recipients client? Can I send the newsletter in a different encoding from that of the site?

Thanks for your continued support!

Last edited by andreas (2008-01-04 07:20:47)

maniqui · 2008-01-04 13:46:04

Hi Andreas,

about the first point: this could be helpful: HeaderinformationinGmailemails

kees-b · 2008-01-14 09:06:08

Hi Ben,

Where did Herodotes horse below the quote go? The image url in the plugin leads to a parked domain.

kees

renobird · 2008-01-14 18:05:17

Hola peoples.

I’ve installed and activated the plugin and the library…but nothing shows in my WRITE tab.
I’m using 4.0.5. Does it work with that version? Any documented plugin conflicts out there?

Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.

EDIT

Doh! Dug a little further and realized I have to publish the article first.
Sorry about that.

—
Tom

Last edited by renobird (2008-01-14 18:17:18)

benbruce · 2008-01-15 00:13:24

kees-b,

The horse has been removed entirely from 0.4, but we could work something out if you love it.

renobird,

That default (not having the module appear at first) is editable.

Ben

Last edited by benbruce (2008-01-15 00:18:05)

benbruce · 2008-01-15 00:14:12

There’s a new thread for Postmaster 0.4. Please use that thread from now on.

kees-b · 2008-01-15 08:29:49

benbruce wrote:

kees-b,
The horse has been removed entirely from 0.4, but we could work something out if you love it.

Hi Ben, I’ll gladly give up my horse for 0.4!

thanks

kees

Last edited by kees-b (2008-01-15 09:25:49)

sipke · 2008-08-16 20:05:29

Dear Ben,

First of all, many thanks for this great plugin, it works like a charm!

I have only one question: is it possible to give a name for admin, not just the email (so the Sender is not just an email address but name+address)?

Thanks in advance, awesome plugin!

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