Re: Sending mass, yet personalised email newsletters using Django

2008-11-12 Thread Patrick J. Anderson
On Tue, 11 Nov 2008 00:27:06 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello Patrick, > > On Nov 11, 1:53 am, "Patrick J. Anderson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: >> >> Some of the main requirements are: >> >> * Personalised HTML/text messages >> * Manual delivery twice a week >> * Message logging/archivi

Re: Sending mass, yet personalised email newsletters using Django

2008-11-11 Thread ilmarik
I would like to share with you some different ideology... I don't like to use any external software to work aside with main application. Very often, it's just imposible to use cron on client's hyper-hostings. The idea is simple, use ajax. I got very simple mechanism that uses some javascript to s

Re: Sending mass, yet personalised email newsletters using Django

2008-11-11 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hello Patrick, On Nov 11, 1:53 am, "Patrick J. Anderson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Some of the main requirements are: > > * Personalised HTML/text messages > * Manual delivery twice a week > * Message logging/archiving > * Amount of newsleter issues: ~50 > * Amount of subscribers: 500-5000

Re: Sending mass, yet personalised email newsletters using Django

2008-11-10 Thread Doug B
I can't claim best way, but the way we do it is to have a few django models for storing the messages, and some help from the email, and smptlib libraries. Models: Mailserver: model for storing connection information for connecting to a standard smtp server, with mixin class using smtplib to provi

Sending mass, yet personalised email newsletters using Django

2008-11-10 Thread Patrick J. Anderson
I'm in the process of writing a simple newsletter managers with a web interface and since I've been a Django user for the past 2 years, I thought of using Django for this task. Some of the main requirements are: * Personalised HTML/text messages * Manual delivery twice a week * Message logging