Moodle plugins directory: Newsletter | Moodle.org
Newsletter
Activities ::: mod_newsletter
Maintained by David Bogner, Wunderbyte GmbH
This is a newsletter module for moodle. First stable release. It provides the basic features of common newsletter tools. Using it with moodle VERP bounce processing is recommended. But we will add an additional bounce processing feature that will be easier to configure.
Latest release:
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Current versions available: 6
Newsletter module
This is a typical newsletter module for moodle. The features are:
- Subscription methods: Opt in, opt out, forced
- Management of subscribed users: Cohort (un)subscription, Ajax user (un)subscription, filtering users
- Auto generated unsubscribe link
- Subscription of not yet registered users
- Multiple attachments
- Stylesheet: Attach a stylesheet and it will be converted to inline CSS (this is necessary for mail clients)
- Report of sent issues
- Resuming sending newsletter if there was a problem so that all recipients will get the newsletter
- Prevent duplicate message sending
- Issues overview with sort options: year/month/week
- Uses moodle internal VERP bounce system, if it is configured correctly
- Easy to use bounce processing: Just setup the mailbox for the noreply adress defined in the moodle configuration and it will automatically add bounce processing to all the newsletters
- Personalised newsletters: Supported replacement are (The pattern format starting with news:// makes it possible to use in in links without being modified by the editor):
- issueurl (URL pointing to the current issue for web view)
Pattern for replacement: news://issueurl/ - issuelink (a full html link pointing to the web view of the current issue)
Pattern for replacement: news://issuelink/ - firstname (First name of the user, the newsletter is sent to)
Pattern for replacement: news://firstname/ - fullname
Pattern for replacement: news://fullname/
- issueurl (URL pointing to the current issue for web view)
Upcoming features
- Tracking of read newsletter issues
- Statistics
- Templates engine
Useful links
Contributors
David Bogner (Lead maintainer)
Wunderbyte GmbH: Product owner
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ps: error seen
Field 'status' doesn't have a default value
INSERT INTO mdl_newsletter_issues (newsletterid,title,htmlcontent,publishon,stylesheetid) VALUES(?,?,?,?,?)
[array (
0 => '1',
1 => 'issue 1 - the beginning ',
2 => '
hello. you\'re reading this from newsletters module!
',3 => 1392271800,
4 => '0',
)]
"
Processing module function newsletter_cron ...... started 07:43:34. Current memory use 30.4MB.
!!! error/typenotimplement !!!
"
What is wrong and what should I do to actually run it?