Hi all,

I am looking for an evennews alternative, because evennews does not work properly with XOOPS 2.2. An updated version (later then 2.01) or hacked version is fine aswell.

Or is there anyone that did get it working with the new XOOPS 2.2, because evennews is basically working, it just does not send the newsletters to the subscribed members.

Hi Olger,

Did you already found an alternative voor Evennews?

I'm looking for it too.

Thanks
Cuno

Thinking of having some work done on the EvenNews module for XOOPS 2.0.x (not necessarily for 2.2)

Below are the "hacks" I'd like to see to make EvenNews EvenBetter.

Anybody got additional ideas?
Anybody up for sharing the development costs?

Admin Area
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Module button rollover pop up only displays "preferences" link, all other functions are not displayed. All the other function - config, subscribers, add newsletter etc, are available only if you click the mod button. Took me awhile to find them. This is not standard XOOPS UI. Should be fixed.

Text/HTML Format
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Subscribers can choose text or html format as a preference. However it's not clear if this really does anything. I composed an HTML message, but indicated as a subscriber that I wanted TEXT. The message was received as text. There's no way when sending a message to indicate sending it to "Text only" or HTML only subscribers

So either we could do the easy thing and simply eliminate the subscriber's choice. Most all current email clients can read HTML message.

Or the more complicated method - which I don't know has much value - when composing a message, there should be a "plain text version" and an "HTML version" and the message goes out as a multipart-MIME. Seems like too much work for little gain.

Bulk import of email addresses
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One can "import users" from the registered users list (respecting their "email" preferences which is nice), but should also be able to add a bulk list of emails via text file upload or cut/paste.

Misc.
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"Main Config Page" is blank. Not sure what should be there.

Bounce Control
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A way to manage bounced emails would be cool.
A way to know how may message "opens" you get would be cool too.

Blocks
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Need to create a "Recent/Current Issue" block for the module. At the moment the mod only has a "subscription block" and a its "main content block." A current issue block would have an admin configurable number of "recent messages" (1 thru 5?) - with some controls for truncation of titles and message content. Probably do not need the "from" in the blcok. This new block would be useful for a home page summary, where we don't need the "description" or "membership" sections that are in the "main content block"