Activities: Newsletter
mod_newsletter
Maintained by 
David Bogner
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.
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Moodle 2.4, 2.5, 2.6
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
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It stopped our entire Moodle from sending messages via the forum, and for some reason also stopped the CRON from running.
Hopefully whatever issues with get sorted as it looks like it might be a useful feature at some point
which Moodle version do you use? Could you give some details about the error messages so that we can fix the problem. Thank you.
Kind regards,
David
The Moodle version is 3.0.2+ (Build: 20160211) I had it running on a test course to see how it worked and if it would be useful to our organisation.
I wasn't given the specific error message by our hosting firm. Only the information that it was the problem when our forum messaging stopped working.
Where would I look for this error message to pass onto you?
Regards
bobby
nevermind. We will try to reproduce the problem on Moodle 3.0. If you have any information (Develop debug mode in Moodle), than you can always paste it here.
Kind regards,
David
when I want to edit a Newsletter in a course, I get a white page, and in debugging, I see this error:
Fatal error: Class 'mod_newsletter' not found in /home2/learn/domains/mysite.com/public_html/mod/newsletter/lib.php on line 776
Any opinion will be appreciated.
I just uploaded a new version of the module, which will fix this issue. Also a long desired feature is now available: Personalising the newsletter. Look in the description of the module for details about this new feature.
Kind regards,
Davdi
Yes its now perfectly working. Thanks a lot!
Regards
Compliments! This is really what we need. Among others: personalised messaging!
A small question: the subscriber receives a confirmation mail from: newsletter This with the text "Welcome"
I want to change both: how to do this? I cannot find anything in the settings or the language strings which drives this.
Bert
Kind regards,
David
The sending of email (via php) is instabile at my site. Sometimes it pops up in the cron and sometimes not. Which planned moodle task is executing the sending?
Bert
Thanks for your quick answer for the translation of the email text with the link you shared.
I already did that, but the mail the subscriber receives on account opening keep having the subject "Welcome" and the sender "newsletter".
A piece of the source of the email:
Subject: Welcome
X-PHP-Originating-Script: 519:class.phpmailer.php
Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2016 17:05:30 +0200
From: newsletter
So: what's generating the header and sender in the mail. Pretty important, because that's the first thing the receiver see.
Could you help me out?
Kind regards
Bert