SHoggard
5 content Sectons each needing a weekly no frills standard HTML newsletter, justlike updates from Socialnetwork sites.
Maybe @ backend:
1. Select Section/Categories,
2. Frequency: weekly/daily (etc)
3. When: Mon/Tues/Wed etc
3. At: (set time)
Maybe front end, user selects:
1. Sections wanted
2. Frequency
But NO... there's dozens of config options (and more bug complaints in the forum than a cheap hotel in Bangkok)
An early review said it all:
What is needed is the following:
A simple button to trigger a bulk email.
A simple link to a list showing us what this particular email trigger is going to do, to who, when &c.
A simple log from the back end showing what was sent, when and to whom and if not, why.
Before any bug-fixing, improvements are carried out the above needs to be addressed.
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SAD DISAPPOINTMENT...
Who are all these people who have been giving Top Ratings, some claiming to have been using it for years... I've been looking for something like this on the JED since 2007 & it only just appeared a couple of months ago!!
Vemod is NOT designed to be an "on-demand" newsletter mailer. It is designed to auto-compile all news articles added since the previous compilation and assemble them into an email which is then sent out to all users on the subscriber list.
We're sorry you feel this way about this component. As for the years of use--that's because this component was maintained by its original author in the past (with a different entry in the JED which has since been removed) and we took over project management at the time when the entry was re-added.
It's interesting that you complain about "too many options" since most people complain that there are not enough.
As for bugs, we are already working on a new release--but there are NO bugs which prevent general use at this time. There are over a thousand sites who have registered their use of this component.
Once installed & enabled it displays a multitude of currencies converted against the one of your choice...good idea.
HOWEVER they are all displayed behind a semi transparent ADVERT / copyright warning that says:-
enty of other modules providing the same function?
This only happens if you change/disable the backlink text or you are running the module on a site that isn't accessible via the web, ie an intranet. There are plenty of users of this module out there for whom it is functioning as it should and are perfectly happy with it!