About IOS Newsletter

[rentasite]

I downloaded and installed IOS Newsletter!! Great work Yianni! It's one of my favorite components. VERY USEFUL!!! - I tested the sample by sending it to myself, and everything rolled smoothly! 2 quick questions and a notice about this component from my side:

Question-1: I can preview correctly the Html edition through the Panel. But when i try to edit and take a look at your sample, i see the Editor (html text) Empty!! Why?

Question-2: In the newsletter and underneath its says "If you dont wish to receive newsletters you can any time unsubscribe from our mailing list". The link "unsubscribe" sends the reader to this link: http://www.mysite.com/com_newsletter/   From where is this changed?

Notice to all: I inserted an email account i have @ gmail.com for testing purposes! I got the Newsletter in the Spam folder. So make sure to whitelist the newsletter's email account. Me personally i'm going to edit the area where the users get registered, and make a notice about this "Spam" behavior.

[datahell]

Thanks for your kind words.

You can write a message in 3 ways:
1. As plain text.
2. As html message via the TinyMCE editor.
3. As a pre-made html template which you upload on your site.

To send an html formatted e-mail message you should pick method 2 or 3. If you select to send an html template (method 3) then the if you have also written an html message via the editor (method 2) then this message is not used. So, method 3 overwrites method 2.

Writing an html message via the editor does not generates too good looking e-mails. If you want to send perfect html e-mails (i.e. in a form of an electronic newspaper) then I suggest you to use a pre-made html template.

I have included 2 samples as html templates. Download them, edit them to add you content, or create totally different new ones and upload them to your site to use them as your mail content.

IOS Newsletter uses a modified by me (for better utf-8 support) version of the PHP Mailer class made by Codeworx Technologies.
PHP Mailer supports Gmail, AOL and other mail providers (you can use their POP3 servers).
I suggest you to use the SMTP method for sending the e-mails and having the "reply to" also checked, this way you want have your messages marked as SPAM. (If you want to send messages one-by-one you can only do this by using the PHP mail send method).

Here is some help for sending problems to hotmail, gmail etc:
http://phpmailer.codeworxtech.com/index.php?pg=tip_spf

Make sure your DNS server has SPF records for the e-mails.

If you want to send html formatted e-mails then always write an alternative plain text e-mail, in order for your mail to be able to read by mail clients without html support. In this case you should send e-mails as Plain + HTML.

The unsubscribe link is a sample, you should copy-paste the real url from your site there. The un-subscribe page is the component's front-end main page. If you have SEO PRO enabled this would be:

http://www.mysite.com/com_newsletter/

Without SEO PRO:

http://www.mysite.com/index.php?option=com_newsletter&Itemid=XX
where XX the Itemid that leds to component Newsletter.

Popular Server Settings

    * Hotmail
      – offers only HTTP support.
    * GMail by Google
      – SMTP - smtp.gmail.com (SSL enabled, port 465)
      – POP3 - pop.gmail.com (SSL enabled, port 995)
    * Yahoo! Mail
      Yahoo! Mail offers standard POP3/SMTP access.
      – SMTP - smtp.mail.yahoo.com (port 25)
      – POP3 - pop.mail.yahoo.com (port 110)
    * Lycos Mail
      The Lycos Mail Plus service offers standard POP3/SMTP access.
      – SMTP - smtp.mail.lycos.com (port 25)
      – POP3 - pop.mail.lycos.com (port 110)
    * AOL Mail Settings
      The AOL email service offers standard IMAP/SMTP access.
      – SMTP - smtp.aol.com (port 25)
      – IMAP - imap.aol.com (port 143)

[rentasite]

Writing an html message via the editor does not generates too good looking e-mails. If you want to send perfect html e-mails (i.e. in a form of an electronic newspaper) then I suggest you to use a pre-made html template.

Yeap i understand that. I just wondered why i couldn't see the html version, through the editor.

Make sure your DNS server has SPF records for the e-mails.

What does this mean 

The unsubscribe link is a sample, you should copy-paste the real url from your site there. The un-subscribe page is the component's front-end main page. If you have SEO PRO enabled this would be:

Ok, i thought it was something automatically shown. Ill take care of this

[datahell]

About setting up SPF records on CPanel:
http://www.cpanelconfig.com/how-to/install-spf-records-on-a-cpanel-server/

Each domain on your server should have a DNS entry like this:
domain.com. 14400 IN TXT "v=spf1 a mx -all"

Notice: If you have a gmail account (for example) you can use it's mail server to sent the e-mails. See the public servers list I posted.

[rentasite]

I have included 2 samples as html templates. Download them, edit them to add you content,

Where do we find those 2 samples, to download them? Don't see them in com_newsletter

EDIT: And something major I just realized that when someone receives a newsletter he can see all the other recipients (CC) and not (BCC) 

[datahell]

It's all written inside the component.
/administrator/components/com_downloads/htmlfiles/
For the CC's see the component configuration, if you want to send one message per recipient you should select "php mail" as the send method.

[rentasite]

Thanks!!!!

[naspor]

Indeed, the IOS newsletter is a very usefull component, but, I'm facing some difficulties.

I can't send newletters.

When I press the button "Send Now", nothing happens, I'm not receiving any email (sent to myself) and
a warning message appears at the bottom left, saying: Error on the page!

What am I doing wrong?

[datahell]

Try change the send method from "php" to smtp". Set properly SMTP (pop3) username/password and mail server.

[naspor]

I used sendmail (linux server).
The configuration is correct.
The problem persist when someone is trying to send a newsletter using IE in the Back-end.
The pop-up window does not appear.
(With firefox, it works perfectly)

Are you experiencing the same problem?

[datahell]

Hmmmm, I dont remember, I need to test it with IE to tell. Maybe there is something on your IE (a javascript blocker tool for example) that prevents the script from working. As it is for the administration area use firefox.

[rentasite]

@naspor: If you want, give me access (PM me) to your Admin panel and tomorrow morning i can test your Ios Newsletter installation.

[naspor]

Thanks supernet, but I resolved the problem.

With IE though, the problems I mentioned above remain...

[rentasite]

Doew any body nknow what this does it means?

It's a permissions issue.  Read this:   http://forum.elxis.org/index.php?topic=3516.0