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@Djan Blom: ??

@Anthony, means:

"Hi, I have the same problem/would Like to know something about the same issue.."

I guess a news letter scenario can be implemented with Contour. I've seen a video tutorial where configurations where made for what seemed to be a news letter application. But more instructions on how to implement a newsletter with Contour would be welcome.

greetings,

Anthony

I did a bit of research and I found this solutions:

http://www.nibble.be/?p=63
This is a mail engine package by Tim Geyssens
It add's a new function 'send email' to the contex menu.
I've tried to configure it, but there where problems with a dll (EO.Web dll) which isn't compatible with the .NET 4.0 framework

Another solution I found is a commercial third party solution still in Beta:

http://www.cmsmailer.com/
Seems promising, so I subscribed to the beta program.

greetings,

Anthony

Hi Anthony,

If you check the comments on http://www.nibble.be/?p=63  it's outlined how to make it work in .net 4

Hi Tim,

I checked the comments, but after two times blowing my website, I gave up. The comments are a bit confusing. On has to download and install the Essential Objects demo version. If I look in that installed folder for the EO.Web.dll, there are two folders 'NET2.0' and .'NET1.1'. If i use the EO.Web.dll that's in the NET2.0 folder, I get an YSOD when trying to send a email by clicking right in the context menu of the Umbraco backend.

In my search for a newsletter solution, I also stumbled upon 'mailchimp4umbraco' (http://devblog.mediaworkers.dk/blog/mailchimp4umbraco). I created a mailchimp account and did the necessery configurations on Umbraco, which aren't difficult, but my initial enthousiasm was torpedoed very soon after I get this error message when trying to subscribe to a mailing list:

nvalid Mailchimp API Key: 'apikey removed for security' . You are accessing the wrong datacenter - your client library may not properly support our datacenter mapping scheme. (104)

Reading the comments on the mailchimp4umbraco blogpage, I'm not the only one getting this error message.

So the search for a good newsletter solution continues ...

greetings,

Anthony

Hi All,

After searching half a day for a newsletter solution, I found a working solution by using Lee Kellehers Campaign Monitor Sign Up package (http://our.umbraco.org/projects/website-utilities/campaign-monitor-sign-up).

This package integrates with the CampaignMonitor service: http://www.campaignmonitor.com/

Many thanks also to Richard Soeteman and Roel Snetselaar

greetings,

Anthony

If anyone need a solution inside of the back office, Newsletter Studio is a package that we've created: http://our.umbraco.org/projects/backoffice-extensions/newsletter-studio

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