Gareth,<br>
<br>
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).<br>
<br>
Joe.<br>
<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 9/14/05, <b class="gmail_sendername">Gareth Hughes</b> <<a href="mailto:gh@vision360.com">gh@vision360.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Hi all,</span></font></p>
<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"> </span></font></p>
<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">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. </span></font></p>
<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"> </span></font></p>
<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">The main functionalities that I require are:</span></font></p>
<p style="margin-left: 38.5pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"><font face="Symbol" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Symbol;"><span>·<font face="Times New Roman" size="1"><span>
</span></font></span></span></font><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">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. </span></font></p>
<p style="margin-left: 38.5pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"><font face="Symbol" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Symbol;"><span>·<font face="Times New Roman" size="1"><span>
</span></font></span></span></font><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">User tracking. If the user reads the
e-mail this must be logged and the links that they click on must also be
tracked. </span></font></p>
<p style="margin-left: 38.5pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"><font face="Symbol" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Symbol;"><span>·<font face="Times New Roman" size="1"><span>
</span></font></span></span></font><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">E-mails need to be personalized, i.e
the e-mail will start with 'Dear Mr Smith'</span></font></p>
<p style="margin-left: 38.5pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"><font face="Symbol" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Symbol;"><span>·<font face="Times New Roman" size="1"><span>
</span></font></span></span></font><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">E-mails should use templates to
ensure the style is consistent and ties in with the site</span></font></p>
<p style="margin-left: 38.5pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"><font face="Symbol" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Symbol;"><span>·<font face="Times New Roman" size="1"><span>
</span></font></span></span></font><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">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</span></font></p>
<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"> </span></font></p>
<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">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. </span></font></p>
<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"> </span></font></p>
<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">If anyone has a module like this or is willing to write one
then please email me.</span></font></p>
<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"> </span></font></p>
<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Regards</span></font></p>
<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"> </span></font></p>
<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Gareth Hughes</span></font></p>
<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"> </span></font></p>
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