GoodNews

Package Description

Feature Highlights

• Easy mailing and newsletter creation: newsletter HTML body based on single MODX templates or plain-text.
• Automatic Bounce Handling: GoodNews can automatically handle bouncing emails and disable or remove inactive subscribers.
• Scheduled sending: send newsletters at a scheduled time.
• Flexible groups and categories: manage your subscribers in highly flexible groups and/or categories of interests.
• MODX context support: support of multiple MODX contexts and mailing containers within each context.
• Ultrafast sending engine: ultrafast sending based on parallel sending processes (multi threaded!).
• Multi language interface: GoodNews currently comes with this languages: English, German, French.
• Preinstalled front-end resources: ready to use: 2-factor subscriptions based on interests, 1-click unsusbcription, editing of subscription profiles.
• Content Collections: automatically insert pre-formatted lists of Resource documents into your mail body (e.g. list of news or products).
• Mailings based on subscribers interests: send mailings based on group and/or categories selection.
• Mailings to internal MODX User groups: Send mailings to internal MODX User groups.
• Import of subscribers: CSV Import of subscribers and automatic groups/categories assignments.
• Simultaneous sending: simultaneous sending of multiple mailing campaigns.
• Unattended sending: start your sending jobs, close the browser window and let GoodNews do the rest.
• GDPR compliant

Usage/Installation Instructions

Requirements

• GoodNews requires MODX 2.2.1 or later
• PHP 5.3 (or later)
• MODX running on MySQL database, MSSQL is currently not supported
• PHP exec enabled on server for multi-threaded sending (optional but strongly recommended!)
• PHP IMAP extension for automatic bounce handling (optional)
• pThumb extension for automatic image resizing (optional)
• A time-based job scheduler like CRON.

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