Sendy.co

Found this online and wanted to share here.

https://sendy.co/

Maybe a modules like this for JR?
updated by @jimmy: 05/13/16 10:30:38PM

you're thinking of it as a replacement to mailgun?

Sendy.co is a newsletter program which you install on your server. It happens to use Amazon SES, which is super cheap.

JR integration with Amazon SES, if not already available, is a nice option.

I was thinking more of a full featured newsletter module with options like Sendy.

I've asked them for a demo copy to see how hard it would be to turn it into a module.

we'll see.

They're fast. They've sent me a license

I'll plug it in here and see how hard its going to be to get modularized.

Newsletters... he comes Jamroom!

Amazon SES can have very low deliverability - it uses the same IP address pool that Amazon uses for EC2 and therefore A LOT of the IP range has been blacklisted - i.e.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13174584/amazon-ses-mails-as-spams

It all depends though on what IP your emails originate from.


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Brian Johnson
Founder and Lead Developer - Jamroom
https://www.jamroom.net

Yea, I can see that being an issue.

Hmm... I actually didn't get the email letting me know there was a reply to this thread. Nothing in my spam folder.

is the target yellow at the top of this page? 'watching'

I am watching. Didn't get the notification you posted either.

This is the last post that I got an email from. Everything after the post quoted above, I didn't get anything.

You are not notified of every new post - you will be notified that there is a new post once - if you visit this thread again it will "reset", so the next new post will notify you again.


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Brian Johnson
Founder and Lead Developer - Jamroom
https://www.jamroom.net

Ok. I did get a notice about your post. Thanks for clearing that up.

What happened to the download link on main page top menu? Seems to be missing. I would always use that link to see the updated modules, etc.

Like the all SSL. I don't have to login anymore when I visit the site.

It's still there:

https://www.jamroom.net/download

Just bookmark it - we're going to be simplifying some of the site pages, menus and links and highlighting our hosting more.

Thanks!


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Brian Johnson
Founder and Lead Developer - Jamroom
https://www.jamroom.net

Thanks for the info.

so what are you thinking the module does for this one jimmy?

After we get it passed the module installs onto the same database as jamroom, what happens then.

Is the desired result that sendy can pickup info from the jamroom base to send out newsletters to them. if so how are you thinking the interface works? by quota? by search and checkbox?

is it just the admin user who can do the sending? (I think yes, its too powerful to give user access for spam reasons.)

1. Sends out a newsletter

2. Have to think about what exactly happens.

3. Yea, having the ability to list something in the newsletter. Let's say I want to kick out a list of the top blog articles. As long as the listing ability is available the newsletter really could send out any information from JR. The module could be simple and be sent to everyone or per quota if the newsletter is a premium feature just for paying members. Let me get back to you on the interface. There would obviously need to be an admin interface with title, quota, and the template for sending. Maybe some options to have multiple newsletter templates and send out whichever newsletter the admin wants ie - blog newsletter, video newsletter, events newsletter. Member side - the user would be able to subscribe to the newsletter, unsubscribe, subscribe to specific newsletters.

I think it's also important to have a visitor newsletter with a form somewhere on the site where non-members can signup. This would be the "general" newsletter. Great to "harvest" email address from people who are interested in the site but for whatever reason don't signup.

It would also be great to have some kind of click tracking from the newsletter. How many people actually open the newsletter? Tracking through a unique link in the newsletter and displayed as metrics in the admin panel for statistics on who is exactly reading the newsletter.

4. Admin only. Though, having the ability of other quotas being able to send it out to followers might be a good upsell to members who want to pay.

Let me think about it some more and I'll add more later.

1. The jr newsletter module can do that.

I've built a module that updates the needed DB info but the user still needs to login to the admin area like its a different section. Once you're there you're not in jamroom anymore, so there's currently very little difference in having it as a module vs having it installed on the same server..

The only way to connect the two would be some tools in the module that allowed lists to be built for sendy into sendy's database of users in jamroom.

Not sure about how the creation of those lists would be most useful though.

I honestly thought you were going to create a module based off of Sendy and not create a bridge between the two. That's why I mentioned it, because of some of the feature in Sendy.

A bridge is interesting... didn't really think about doing that.

Its easy to confuse me when things aren't spelled out in steps to follow

What lists would you use for your community?
* each of the quotas
* each of the member levels
* a signup to specific lists for certain email autoresponders
*.....?

does sendy have an autoresponder type thing in it? couldnt locate the user docs for the system


* send day 1
* send day 2
* send day 3
* send day 10
* send day 15
....

???

I haven't seen any detailed user docs for the system. Best thing they have is the forum - https://sendy.co/forum/

Yes, they do have an autoresponder.