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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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I set up and activated the bounce handling but I'm not quite sure how and if it works properly! My dedicated bounce email inbox does not receive any messages although I added a user with an invalid email address to the newsletter recipients! I really appreciate any further assistance!
Kind regards,
George
Compliments for this plugin! Really adding value!
Feature Wish: set publication date not automatically.
Our teachers have the habit to start writing. Save it and...than a draft is send.
Bert
thank you for the compliments. In fact the default publication date should be set to the next day same time compared to first editing time. But it seems that there is a little bug, that sets the publishing date to the same day. We will fix that.
Kind regards,
David
Thx for the quick response. Consider to the default publishing set in 2099. Bij doing so you avoid unwillingly publishing.
Kind regards,
Bert
Do you think your essential plugin will be compatible with Moodle 3.3?
This plugin seems to work on Moodle 3.3 !
Please can you explain how I can use stylesheets? thanks