Simplenews

Simplenews publishes and sends newsletters to lists of subscribers. Both anonymous and authenticated users can opt-in to different mailing lists. HTML email can be send by adding Mime Mail module.

Simplenews 6.x supports multilingual newsletters (i18n) and actions/triggers.

New maintainer for simplenews

Sutharsan, the previous maintainer decided to quit simplenews maintainership by August 23rd.
Miro Dietiker of MD Systems will take over maintainership for future.
If simplenews is critical for your business, please contact me and support development. Your donations appreciated. Also if you like to join the simplenews maintainer team, don't hesitate to contact me anyway. I'm looking forward to hear from you soon!

Related modules

The following modules work with simplenews:

• Simplenews Content Selection
• Simplenews Roles (1.x, 2.x)
• Simplenews Digest
• Simplenews Scheduler
• Simplenews Analytics
• Simplenews Statistics (stable)
• Simplenews RealName (1.x, 2.x)
• Webform Simplenews Component (1.x, 2.x)
• Simplenews Bounce (under development)
• Simplenews Template (1.x only)
• Simplenews on register (unneeded in 2.x)
• Simplenews Multiple Signup Block (unneeded in 2.x)
• Simplenews Subscription Manager (abandoned)

More information

Full documentation: Simplenews handbook page
Installation instructions: readme.txt (Drupal 5), readme.txt (Drupal 6)

Roadmap

Find some recent notes on roadmap on:
#964864: Roadmap of Simplenews 6.x-2.0 / 7.x

If you switch to 6.x-2.x make sure you add token module. Drupal 6 has limitations in its upgrade implementation and omits the check of this newly added dependency. An alpha-release for 6.x-2.x has been created. Features in 6.x are alost frozen.

The 7.x version is subject of heavy development. All further feature requests are subject of 7.x. Installations of 7.x branch prior to 1.1.2011 won't be supported in upgrade path: you need to uninstall and reinstall simplenews again. Caution, we DO NOT provide a D6>D7 upgrade path for now, we're working on it. The first stable release will include it

Survey

During August and September 2008, I held a survey to determine how Simplenews is used and what new functionality is desired. Sutharsan published the results on his blog.

Known bugs

1. Simplenews is not compatible with Content Taxonomy where Content Taxonomy is used as newsletter taxonomy field. See this issue.
2. Using Poormanscron can cause simplenews to send multiple copies of the same email to the same recipient. Therefore I strongly advise against using Poormanscron.. Use cron(tab) and cron.php instead. See this issue.

Credits

Simplenews is currently maintained by Miro Dietiker of MD Systems and Simon Georges of Makina-Corpus.
Originally written by DriesK, later maintained by RobRoy and Sutharsan.

The module maintainer is available for paid Simplenews customization and service.