Mailinglist/massmail in SMF and how ?

[roxpace]

Hi,

I need to find a way to send emails through SMF to users in the SMF application user database which is members of a specific group which has approved that they wanna have newsletters.

Are there any ways to do this today ?  Or am I forced to develop something own ?

It would be wonderful if it could integrate / bridge with MAILMAN (this one would be best) or PHPLIST

PS! I know there is a mail feature inside SMF, but that doesn't check if they self has declined to get newsletters and a good mail engine like MAILMAN would be great !DS

Sincerely
/R

[Oldiesmann]

SMF already includes this functionality actually.

Admin -> Edit Features and Options -> Allow members to disable announcements

[roxpace]

But how does SMF work with emails to thousands of members ? Mailman for example is very effective and also includes feature like the old good Majordomo to unsubscribe through email.

Sincerely
/R

[Ben_S]

But how does SMF work with emails to thousands of members ?

Not too well in 1.0x, if you have thousands, you would be best off spliting it up into "chunks" of a few hundred.

1.1 should handle it better, but thats not out yet.

[roxpace]

Would it be possible to get a CVS or preview of jus that feature or so I can manage this, I am not gonna use this on only one site but on severals.

Thanks

/R

[Armada]

I'm sorry for umping up this topic after so long, but I'd be very interested also in knowing how to mass mail tens of thousands of users in SMF 1.0.* . The SMF software just times out. An integration with Mailman (or similar) would be great.

Does anybody have any ideas on this please?

Many thanks. 

[brandondrury]

I've asked this question several times in various forums and everyone seams to collectively agree that the 3rd part stuff is the way to go.  When I say "third party", I mean they send your mail for you from another server. 

I wish I could think of the name of the big dog place.  I stumbled on them by searching for "auto responders".

brandon