rer.newsletter

This product allows the complete management of a newsletter.

Features

New Content-type

• Channel
  • Totally customizable because it is possible to set a header, a footer and CSS styles. This fields allows to uniform template of email that will be sent from one channel.
  • content type that inherit from folder content.
• Message
  • content type that inherit from folder content.

Portlet and Tile

The product provide a portlet and a tile for user subscribe.

Form for user subscribe have an email field and is protected for spam with collective.honeypot.

User Management

Allows complete management of user.

• Add user from admin setting
• Delete user from admin setting
• Import users directly from CSV file
• Export users directly to CSV file
• Delete a group of user directly from CSV file
• Subscribe users
• Unsubscribe users

Advanced Features

Customize how to send your newsletter

By default, this product send all the emails through the standard plone mailer. The actual sending mechanism is handled by an adapter (a multi-adapter):

<adapter
  for="rer.newsletter.behaviors.ships.IShippableMarker
       zope.publisher.interfaces.browser.IBrowserRequest"
  provides=".base_adapter.IChannelSender"
  factory=".base_adapter.BaseAdapter"
/>

To change this default activity, you can create a new Plone add-on that register a new adapter with a more specific layer (e.g. use the browser layer of the new add-on) and override the sendMessage method as you wish.

rer.newsletterplugin.flask is an example of plugin with a custom sender. It uses an external Flask app to send emails.

Advanced security

New permissions have been added for the management of the Newsletter:

• rer.newsletter: Add Channel
• rer.newsletter: Add Message
• rer.newsletter: Manage Newsletter
• rer.newsletter: Send Newsletter

This permission are assigned to Manager and Site Administrator. There is also a new role, Gestore Newsletter, which has permissions for all possible operations on newsletter.

Bot protection

This product use collective.honeypot to prevent bot submissions.

You just need to set two environment variables:

• EXTRA_PROTECTED_ACTIONS customer-satisfaction-add
• HONEYPOT_FIELD xxx

xxx should be a field name that bot should compile.

If you get hacked, you could simply change that variable.

Subscriptions cleanup

There is a view (@@delete_expired_users) that delete all users that not have confirmed subscription to a channel in time.

You can set subscription token validity from the product's control panel.

Inside the settings of the product there is a field that allows you to set validity time of the channel subscription token.

Installation

Install rer.newsletter by adding it to your buildout:

[buildout]

...

eggs =
    rer.newsletter

and then running bin/buildout

Dependencies

This product has been tested on Plone 6 with volto integration.

Credits

Developed with the support of Regione Emilia Romagna;

Regione Emilia Romagna supports the PloneGov initiative.

Authors

This product was developed by RedTurtle Technology team.