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The electronic form should mimic the printed form as closely as possible. The concept of building a newsletter from blocks does not sound as if it will do that.
Second, is some form of email throttling built into SmartMail to overcome problems that many of us face of exceeding the hourly outgoing message limit on our servers?
Matching a printed format with email can be tough - depending on the recipient's email client and their local preferences.
Have you ever "turned off images" in Outlook and seen what your beautifully formated HTML email messge looks like? Or seen what LotusNotes does to your CSS?
One solution would be attachment capability - ie. a PDF. We have this on SmartMail's feature's list - but not for the beta release.
Mail throttling will be part of the Mail Sending Service part of SmartMail. Most likely with admin control for both batch size and pause-between-batch duration.
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The concept of building a newsletter via blocks on the site does not seem natural to me. More likely would be the facility to take news content from something like news, rss and newbb, and tie it into a templated newsletter.
I had the exact same reaction when I first got into the SandBox. But I have subsequently changed my mind.
What you have suggested - taking news content from something like news, rss and newbb, and pputting it into a templated newsletter - can be done with SmartMail and the WhatsNew module.
Automatically. And on a repeating schedule.
For other content you can use XOOPS custom blocks - with the XOOPs WYSIWYG editor of your choice. You could even use custom blocks to create an issue entirely of manual content.
SmartMail is an out-of-the-box-thinking solution.
Keep an open mind....
Andy Cleff
Ampersand Design, Inc
Doylestown, PA
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