Newsletter module

This is a typical newsletter module for moodle. The features are:

• Subscription methods: Opt in, opt out, forced
• Management of subscribed users: Cohort (un)subscription, Ajax user (un)subscription, filtering users
  
• Auto generated unsubscribe link
• Subscription of not yet registered users
• Multiple attachments
• Stylesheet: Attach a stylesheet and it will be converted to inline CSS (this is necessary for mail clients)
• Report of sent issues
• Resuming sending newsletter if there was a problem so that all recipients will get the newsletter
• Prevent duplicate message sending
• Issues overview with sort options: year/month/week
• Uses moodle internal VERP bounce system, if it is configured correctly
• Easy to use bounce processing: Just setup the mailbox for the noreply adress defined in the moodle configuration and it will automatically add bounce processing to all the newsletters
• Personalised newsletters: Supported replacement are (The pattern format starting with news:// makes it possible to use in in links without being modified by the editor):
  
  • issueurl (URL pointing to the current issue for web view)
    Pattern for replacement: news://issueurl/
    
  • issuelink  (a full html link pointing to the web view of the current issue)
     Pattern for replacement: news://issuelink/
    
  • firstname (First name of the user, the newsletter is sent to)
    Pattern for replacement: news://firstname/
    
  • fullname 
    Pattern for replacement: news://fullname/
    

Upcoming features

• Tracking of read newsletter issues
  
• Statistics
• Templates engine