EasyNewsletter
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EasyNewsletter is a simple but powerful newsletter/mailing product for Plone.


Features
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    * Plonish (can use Plone's Collections to collect content)

    * Support Text and HTML Newsletter (including images)

    * Subscribing / Unsubscribing and can use Plone Members/Groups as receivers (works also with Membrane)

    * Variable templates to generate newsletter content

    * TTW customizeable output Template to generate nice HTML Newsletter

    * Support personalized mails


Requirements
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    * inqbus.plone.fastmemberproperties, speed up access of member properties (should automaticly installed)


Installation
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    1. Add Products.EasyNewsletter to your buildout

    2. Run your buildout script

    3. Restart zope

    4. Install EasyNewsletter via Plone Management Interface

    5. Add an "Newsletter Subscriber" portlet and enter the path to the
    EasyNewsletter object, e.g.: /portal/newsletter (To this newsletter the
    subscribers will be added).


Documentation 
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For more documentation please visit: http://packages.python.org/Products.EasyNewsletter/


Source Code 
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The source code is within the collective: https://svn.plone.org/svn/collective/Products.EasyNewsletter/

Changes
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2.0.1 (2010-07-31)
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 * bugfix: use the Zope MailHost for conformations mails, instead of sendmail.
   Now you settings in plone sitesetup will respected ;).

Changes
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2.0 (2010-07-16)
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 * integrate the header and footer field into email text

 * add possibility to define a default header and footer in the Newsletter container 

 * add fullname attribute to subscriber

 * add description and fullname to subscriber portlet
 
 * add usefull path description to subscriber portlet and allow also a path starting with '/'

 * add plone members and groups selection to Newsletter and Issue

 * use inqbus.fastmemberproperties to get all memberproperties fast (inqbus.fastmemberproperties is now required!)

 * add personalization of emails

 * add PERSOLINE marker to indicate personalize lines, this lines are removed in archive view

 * add TemplateField to the Newsletter container to cutomize the output format of the mailing/newsletter

 * make sending more robust, catch Exceptions and log it, insted of breaking up in the middle of sending procedure

 * move confirmation mail subject and text out into Newsletter settings to make it customizeable

 * add Double Opt-in to subscribe process


1.0 beta 3 (2009-12-24)
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* Removed subscribers and templates from navigation

* Batch subscribers

1.0 beta 2 (2009-12-19)
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* Added missing non-python files

1.0 beta 1 (2009-12-19)
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* First version for Plone 3
