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Extension Name: Mailing list
Author: DavidIQ

Extension Description: Allows setting up a mailing list email address to forward all new posts and topics to.
Extension Version: 1.0.0-dev

Requirements: phpBB 3.1.3-RC1 and up
Features:
  • Specify an unsubscribe link for the mailing list
  • Send an email for either new posts or topics or both
  • Include post contents in the email
Extension Download: https://github.com/DavidIQ/phpBB-MailingList

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Possible additional features:
  • Limit to some forums.
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If you have any suggestions on additional features I'm all ears.
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Is this going to be like a daily digest?
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..777.. wrote:Is this going to be like a daily digest?
No. For that you would want to take a look at phpBB Digests, which will be ported to 3.1 sometime soon.
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DavidIQ wrote:
..777.. wrote:Is this going to be like a daily digest?
No. For that you would want to take a look at phpBB Digests, which will be ported to 3.1 sometime soon.
Aaah ok. Yeh I am waiting for phpBB Digests. :)
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Re: [DEV] Mailing List

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This seems to be a one-way relationship, is there a second part to it, where posts and replies to a mailing list is also sent to the forum so the relationship is bi-directional or is that on the roadmap somewhere ?

I had a brief look at https://github.com/DavidIQ/phpBB-MailingList but didn't find any TODO.txt or something which will give an outline on what you are thinking about next.

Look forward to know what the future roadmap is.
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hello I create a newsletter topic and create a topic that contains text and photos using bbcode .
This mail is sent to all users of the forum viewing in email the link to the page or the content of the topic , or both ?
I was thinking of using it to create a kind of newsletter for my users .

ps: sorry, google translate
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shirish_ag75 wrote:This seems to be a one-way relationship, is there a second part to it, where posts and replies to a mailing list is also sent to the forum so the relationship is bi-directional or is that on the roadmap somewhere ?

I had a brief look at https://github.com/DavidIQ/phpBB-MailingList but didn't find any TODO.txt or something which will give an outline on what you are thinking about next.

Look forward to know what the future roadmap is.
I had thought about this but didn't really bother looking into it further since the requirements I was given for this didn't include it. Now that the client has what they asked for its possible that there could be some sort of two-way communication to this. Not sure yet though. As it is right now can be considered the final product unless this two-way communication is really desired by a few users.
girello wrote:hello I create a newsletter topic and create a topic that contains text and photos using bbcode .
This mail is sent to all users of the forum viewing in email the link to the page or the content of the topic , or both ?
I was thinking of using it to create a kind of newsletter for my users .

ps: sorry, google translate
BBCode/HTML is stripped from outgoing messages since they are sent in plain text by phpBB. Right now there doesn't seem to be a way to override this either so that's how it has to be until the core is changed.
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This extension can use for custom letters by administrator too? Users will register to mailing list, and forum administrator can send olny for them some special newsletter. (Like mass e-mail, but not for everyone only those who register at mailing list).

Hope you understand what i meant :D
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Anonymous_et_EE wrote:This extension can use for custom letters by administrator too? Users will register to mailing list, and forum administrator can send olny for them some special newsletter. (Like mass e-mail, but not for everyone only those who register at mailing list).

Hope you understand what i meant :D
It can work that way but as it is now the mailing list would receive an email about every new topic made anywhere on the forum.
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DavidIQ wrote:
Anonymous_et_EE wrote:This extension can use for custom letters by administrator too? Users will register to mailing list, and forum administrator can send olny for them some special newsletter. (Like mass e-mail, but not for everyone only those who register at mailing list).

Hope you understand what i meant :D
It can work that way but as it is now the mailing list would receive an email about every new topic made anywhere on the forum.
I am quite interested in development of this extension, mainly in the idea here above mentioned by DavidIQ (3 monthes ago now).

Is it possible to get a point of situation about it ?

Best regards.
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antier wrote:
DavidIQ wrote:
Anonymous_et_EE wrote:This extension can use for custom letters by administrator too? Users will register to mailing list, and forum administrator can send olny for them some special newsletter. (Like mass e-mail, but not for everyone only those who register at mailing list).

Hope you understand what i meant :D
It can work that way but as it is now the mailing list would receive an email about every new topic made anywhere on the forum.
I am quite interested in development of this extension, mainly in the idea here above mentioned by DavidIQ (3 monthes ago now).

Is it possible to get a point of situation about it ?

Best regards.
The idea is not really something I'm really interested in. I don't know why one would want to use the forum to do a newsletter instead of just creating one on real mail software and send it to the list.
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shirish_ag75 wrote:This seems to be a one-way relationship, is there a second part to it, where posts and replies to a mailing list is also sent to the forum so the relationship is bi-directional or is that on the roadmap somewhere ?
The second part will be a great addition , Looking forward to it.
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posibility to add news for some groups? :roll:
I speak spanish
Sorry for my bad english

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