Nice work on the module! I purchased a copy and installed it - I did notice after sending a couple of test emails that “clicked links” are not being reported. The email opens/unsubscribes are reporting fine, but no luck with the link tracking. Any suggestions?
Looks absolutely brilliant… can’t wait to try it. The contacts module will be a real boon too.
Couple of questions…..
1. Does Boomerang support attachments? Can I attach PDFs or DOCs to outgoing mails? Some clients really want the ability to add attachments. If yes, what are the limitations? If no, would this be a future feature?
2. I’ve had issues in the past on some servers with EE’s mailing list module not sending out confirmation emails once people subscribe to a list. If people don’t receive their confirmation email, they don’t click the link, and therefore EE doesn’t add them to the list. Is there any way around this, or is a there a more robust method of ensuring subscribe confirmation?
Looks great, and we have a copy bought and running - where is the documentation on the cron? Also, there are two required tags, but what other tags can we use, like personalisation of emails etc?
I’ll make sure it’s highlighted for all to see. Boomerang actually sits on top of the Mailing List module to manage your contacts, so anything Mailing has, Boomerang does too.
Ah - not quite what I meant. I was referring to the ability to limit the amount of emails sent per hour as in “send 8 emails every 60 seconds”.
The reason is many hosts have a cap on the maximum emails you can send out per hour, often around the 500 mark. EE currently can’t do this
Nice work on the module! I purchased a copy and installed it - I did notice after sending a couple of test emails that “clicked links” are not being reported. The email opens/unsubscribes are reporting fine, but no luck with the link tracking. Any suggestions?
All links are required to have at least http://, or http://www (vali.d URL’s)
just www. or domain.com will not function properly. If that doesn’t seem to do the trick shoot me a PM, and I’ll send you my email address for further correspondence.
Looks absolutely brilliant… can’t wait to try it. The contacts module will be a real boon too.
Couple of questions…..
1. Does Boomerang support attachments? Can I attach PDFs or DOCs to outgoing mails? Some clients really want the ability to add attachments. If yes, what are the limitations? If no, would this be a future feature?
2. I’ve had issues in the past on some servers with EE’s mailing list module not sending out confirmation emails once people subscribe to a list. If people don’t receive their confirmation email, they don’t click the link, and therefore EE doesn’t add them to the list. Is there any way around this, or is a there a more robust method of ensuring subscribe confirmation?
Cheers,
Nik
It doesn’t currently support attachments. I will go ahead and put that in the list of desired features though.
As for # 2, I believe you can turn off the confirmation emails all together on subscribe. Not sure if that would work for you? We do have a few more options that will be introduced in another module shortly.
Haven’t seen that one before. Are the emails going to junk mail by chance?
Boy oh boy, this looks like one awesome humdinger of a module. It solves a nagging issue that I’ve been agitating about for three years. Have you been developing in parallel for the forthcoming (maybe we’ll even see it in 2009!) ExpressionEngine 2.0? Would there be an upgrade fee if we bought Boomerang and then needed a version for EE 2.0?
Boy oh boy, this looks like one awesome humdinger of a module. It solves a nagging issue that I’ve been agitating about for three years. Have you been developing in parallel for the forthcoming (maybe we’ll even see it in 2009!) ExpressionEngine 2.0? Would there be an upgrade fee if we bought Boomerang and then needed a version for EE 2.0?
The other module has been developed in parallel, so we might see it in 2009. We don’t have the particulars for EE 2.0 worked out yet, but we are definitely porting it to the 2.0 line.
Ah - not quite what I meant. I was referring to the ability to limit the amount of emails sent per hour as in “send 8 emails every 60 seconds”.
The reason is many hosts have a cap on the maximum emails you can send out per hour, often around the 500 mark. EE currently can’t do this
I too would be curious if the module provides a native means to throttle mailings. We just ran into a situation where a clients HOST limited outgoing emails to 1000 per hour.
Obviously not an issue if you’re only sending out a few hundred newsletters. But if you have a mailing list consisting of 10,000+ recipients this is a very real issue.
Ah - not quite what I meant. I was referring to the ability to limit the amount of emails sent per hour as in “send 8 emails every 60 seconds”.
The reason is many hosts have a cap on the maximum emails you can send out per hour, often around the 500 mark. EE currently can’t do this
I too would be curious if the module provides a native means to throttle mailings. We just ran into a situation where a clients HOST limited outgoing emails to 1000 per hour.
Obviously not an issue if you’re only sending out a few hundred newsletters. But if you have a mailing list consisting of 10,000+ recipients this is a very real issue.
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It would also depend on your server. I know my host has limits on shared/grid servers but not on dedicated servers.
We have opted to use an external service to deal with emails which takes out of the equation the restriction placed by the host.
I’ll make sure it’s highlighted for all to see. Boomerang actually sits on top of the Mailing List module to manage your contacts, so anything Mailing has, Boomerang does too.
Ah - not quite what I meant. I was referring to the ability to limit the amount of emails sent per hour as in “send 8 emails every 60 seconds”.
The reason is many hosts have a cap on the maximum emails you can send out per hour, often around the 500 mark. EE currently can’t do this
It doesn’t currently have a throttling functionality. I can see this is a needed functionality. I would be apt to say we will have that sooner then later. Possibly next release.
Ah - not quite what I meant. I was referring to the ability to limit the amount of emails sent per hour as in “send 8 emails every 60 seconds”.
The reason is many hosts have a cap on the maximum emails you can send out per hour, often around the 500 mark. EE currently can’t do this
I too would be curious if the module provides a native means to throttle mailings. We just ran into a situation where a clients HOST limited outgoing emails to 1000 per hour.
Obviously not an issue if you’re only sending out a few hundred newsletters. But if you have a mailing list consisting of 10,000+ recipients this is a very real issue.
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Any decent host will do this. After all, you would not want to be tagged as spamming domain or even worse on shared all of the domains.
Reason why campaignmonitor is a better choice.
Never the less this is a great starter plugin for those who have mailing lists in 100s of subscribers.
This looks great. One concern I always have with sending out large email campaigns from my server is that it requires a lot more whitelist/blacklist management at the ISP level. So I usually use services such as MailChimp. Do you have any recommendations to overcome these concerns or are they overblown?
Does the Boomerang automatically handle bounced emails? Hard and soft?
Currently there is no bounce detection, though we have some work in on the feature. It’s a bit complicated for users to set up though, as they need to be handed and subsequently parsed by an actual email address. There’s a possibility it will be added to the module in the future though.
stay tuned for feature requests.
