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Hmm. For me this is disappointing news on both fronts. As I've mentioned before, our objective is to be able to send our monthly newsletter to those members of the organization who opt to get it electronically. The remainder will continue to get the paper copy by regular mail. I had planned to create a group for each of those. Thus, we could export the addresses for those getting the mailed version adn one to send the e-version. I guess the latter can be handled by imported those members into SmartMail.
I had also hoped to be able to create a "cover letter" to send out via SmartMail with the newsletter attached as a PDF file. We can do the link-back option, but people being what people are, they will much prefer receiving the attachment. They will complain that "it is too much trouble" to have to log on to the site to get the newsletter.
Barry
andycleff wrote:
Don't know about that odd post. I did reply earlier to Barry's message:
Quote:I have been assuming that we'll be able to send mail to selected groups, too. That is, to subsets of registered users. Am I right?
Also, what is the priority for adding the ability to send attachments? Not too low, I hope.
But it seems that message got lost. Either that or I dreamt that I replied. I've been working hard, but not that hard.
Anyway, SmartMail does not currently have the ability to send mail to a user group. However, it will have the ability to import a batch of users. So I guess you could tackle things that way.
Not sure how you would handle the opt-in / SPAM issue with the ability to email to a group. When someone joined a group, you'd have to let them know they were joining your mailing list and give them a means to decline. Maybe there would be someway to include the SmartMail Newsletter block (with its subscription functions) into the registration page? Don't know. How would you not SPAM the already registered users in the group?
A "send attachement function" kind of already exists - with the SmartMail custom block. However the "attachment" would be a link back to a file that lived on your site.
A direct attachment feature will have to be on a future version wish list.
Hmm. For me this is disappointing news on both fronts. As I've mentioned before, our objective is to be able to send our monthly newsletter to those members of the organization who opt to get it electronically. The remainder will continue to get the paper copy by regular mail. I had planned to create a group for each of those. Thus, we could export the addresses for those getting the mailed version adn one to send the e-version. I guess the latter can be handled by imported those members into SmartMail.
I had also hoped to be able to create a "cover letter" to send out via SmartMail with the newsletter attached as a PDF file. We can do the link-back option, but people being what people are, they will much prefer receiving the attachment. They will complain that "it is too much trouble" to have to log on to the site to get the newsletter.
Barry
Barry Cooper
Sweet Home, Oregon
Sweet Home, Oregon
