Newsletter

Features

• The subscription form is a block in the sidebar or under an article. By default it asks only for an email address.
• A subscription becomes active after confirmation via the link in the email. Unsubscribing is one link in every newsletter, with no sign-in and no questions.
• The form gives the same response for any address, so an outsider cannot find out whether someone else is subscribed. Bots are filtered out by a honeypot field, a time check and a limit of three attempts in ten minutes.
• Newsletters: draft, test send to yourself, audience by language, copy to a new draft. The markup is the same as in news.
• The queue sends the newsletter in batches. Each email is assembled at the moment of sending, so someone who unsubscribes in the meantime will not receive it.
• Overview: list growth, unsubscribes, delivery rate, subscribers by language. A list with filters and CSV export.

Configuration

«Newsletter» → «Settings»:

• «Subscription form»: Text above the subscribe form, Ask for a name (off), Note under the form.
• «Delivery»: Letters per batch — one batch goes out without delay, the next one a minute later; 50 by default.
• «List hygiene»: Keep unconfirmed addresses, days — 30 by default.

Permissions

• See subscribers — on installation: administrator, editor, moderator.
• Write and send letters — administrator only.

On the site

The «Newsletter» block, in the sidebar by default; its place is changed in «Appearance → Home & blocks». Links from emails: /subscribe/confirm/… and /subscribe/leave/….

Installation and removal

Tables subscribers and newsletters. Subscribers and newsletters go to the shared bin. An unsubscribed person is not deleted, so that a repeat subscription does not wipe out their request. Removing the module with its data erases both tables along with the subscriber list.