update: Getting a working simplenews mail application

I’m busy building an standalone newsletter application using simplenews. So my attempt to create some kind of documentation for a working drupal based newsletter solution.

Use Simplenews 2-dev (at this moment 31-3-2010) it’s really great! Keep up the good work!
simplenews template 2-dev ( at this moment you have to apply a patch #640740: Fatal error with Simplenews 6.x-2.x: undefined function simplenews_mail_tokens() to use it with simplenews 2-dev  the new dev doesn’t need this patch anymore but this one theme_simplenews_template_mail() function not being called. )
mimemail: i’m sorry to say but mime mail sucks. The issue queue is crowded and there are no recent releases. Attempts of people to become co maintainers aren’t accepted. Worse the latest release is only working on gmail accounts when sending a test mail or when you don’t send with phpmailer (highly recommended to send with phpmymailer). Get this version from CVS:cvs -d :pserver:anonymous@cvs.drupal.org:/cvs/drupal-contrib export -D2009-02-23 -R -d mimemail contributions/modules/mimemailand patch the security issue:

http://drupalcode.org/viewvc/drupal/contributions/modules/mimemail/mimem…

otherwise gmail won’t display attached images. I highly recommend using phpmailer function to send the emails by a smtp server than using php mail();. If you send mails for another domain hotmail will push you into the junk box and your sender adress will be “bla@bla.com on behalf of blub@blub.com”

UPDATE: I haven’t tested it yet but these patches are looking great: Mime Mail 6.x-1.0-beta1

UPDATE: I have tested it and the patches are great: Mime Mail 6.x-1.0-beta1

Use the ckeditor module and the dev release of imce (looks a lot nicer than imce stable) and you will get wysiwyg power for the body and simplenews template. Again mimemail sucks: if you have spaces in your image filenames, the images won’t appear. Wysiwyg API doesn’t show up on simplenews_template