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No Longer Available NEW MODULE => Boomerang - Email Marketing and reporting fully integrated!

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Jack McDade's avatar
Jack McDade
425 posts
16 years ago
Jack McDade's avatar Jack McDade
Sorry to immediately inundate you with crap. I think you mentioned this in while in beta. I’m on a MT DV and under settings it’s telling me Safe Mode is on but my PHP Info is saying it’s off for Local Value and on for Master Value. Have you encountered this?

Haven’t encountered it, no. You might not have anything to worry about, as things CAN function fine while in Safe Mode. It’s for the email scheduling and cron job. As long as that cron job can be set and accessed, you’re fine.

       
Michael Hahn's avatar
Michael Hahn
316 posts
16 years ago
Michael Hahn's avatar Michael Hahn

Congrats on the launch Jack,

We will being trying this for sure. Also the new sites look good too.

       
eyevariety's avatar
eyevariety
158 posts
16 years ago
eyevariety's avatar eyevariety

Oh man some functionality I have always wanted. If you can release the 1.1 version with weblog:entries functionality you will have a customer many times over im me and my clients. I am currently rendering pages and pasting them into some other software to achieve something I could automate in boomerang.

       
Jack McDade's avatar
Jack McDade
425 posts
16 years ago
Jack McDade's avatar Jack McDade
If you can release the 1.1 version with weblog:entries functionality you will have a customer many times over im me and my clients.

Well I guess we should get right on it! 😊

       
Cem Meric's avatar
Cem Meric
210 posts
16 years ago
Cem Meric's avatar Cem Meric

Much needed add-on Jack, just purchased it with “Item Number 2” 😊 stay tuned for feature requests.

       
Jeff Hawkins's avatar
Jeff Hawkins
20 posts
16 years ago
Jeff Hawkins's avatar Jeff Hawkins

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?

       
Nick Foxall's avatar
Nick Foxall
189 posts
16 years ago
Nick Foxall's avatar Nick Foxall

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

       
Sean C. Smith's avatar
Sean C. Smith
3,818 posts
16 years ago
Sean C. Smith's avatar Sean C. Smith

Jack,

This looks great. Wish I had a client to use this with.

       
emagine media's avatar
emagine media
65 posts
16 years ago
emagine media's avatar emagine media

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?

Looks like a good start on a much needed plugin.

       
Rob Allen's avatar
Rob Allen
3,114 posts
16 years ago
Rob Allen's avatar Rob Allen
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 😊

       
Tom Jaeger's avatar
Tom Jaeger
497 posts
16 years ago
Tom Jaeger's avatar Tom Jaeger
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. (valid 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.

       
Tom Jaeger's avatar
Tom Jaeger
497 posts
16 years ago
Tom Jaeger's avatar Tom Jaeger
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?

       
Brendon Carr's avatar
Brendon Carr
135 posts
16 years ago
Brendon Carr's avatar Brendon Carr

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?

       
Tom Jaeger's avatar
Tom Jaeger
497 posts
16 years ago
Tom Jaeger's avatar Tom Jaeger
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.

       
hothousegraphix's avatar
hothousegraphix
851 posts
16 years ago
hothousegraphix's avatar hothousegraphix
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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