[opencms-dev] E-mail Campaign Module

[Joe Desbonnet]

Gareth,

This has very little in common with OpenCms functionality. I would advise 
that you consider developing this a separate application and then doing some 
integration work. I develop these kind of things all the time using Tomcat 
(servlet container), MySQL (database), Velocity (templating) and Eclipse + 
Sysdeo Tomcat plugin (development environment).

Joe.


On 9/14/05, Gareth Hughes <gh at vision360.com> wrote:
> 
>  Hi all,
> 
>  I am currently developing a couple of sites in OpenCms 6 and they all 
> require an email campaign system so newsletters and marketing material can 
> be sent to registered users of the site. I've used the standard mail API 
> with OpenCms but I don't have the time to develop a module to handle the 
> above at the moment and I was wondering if someone has developed such a 
> module as open source or proprietary. 
> 
>  The main functionalities that I require are:
> 
> · that emails need to be sent out in multiple languages. The language of 
> the user is known and the correct version of the email must be sent to them. 
> 
> 
> · User tracking. If the user reads the e-mail this must be logged and the 
> links that they click on must also be tracked. 
> 
> · E-mails need to be personalized, i.e the e-mail will start with 'Dear Mr 
> Smith'
> 
> · E-mails should use templates to ensure the style is consistent and ties 
> in with the site
> 
> · When an email campaign is sent, the number of emails sent for the 
> campaign must be recorded so we can track how many campaigns a customer is 
> running and how many mails they are sending per campaign
> 
>  There are dedicated packages around that can do all of this but it is 
> something we want to integrate into OpenCms so our customers only have to 
> use one interface. 
> 
>  If anyone has a module like this or is willing to write one then please 
> email me.
> 
>  Regards
> 
>  Gareth Hughes
> 
>  
> 
> 
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