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Bulk Emailer - Reliable Advanced Email
  posted by Interactivewebs.com.au Australia on 6/18/2009
  Interactivewebs.com.au Australia active since 5/30/2004
 5.00 (2 reviews)
Price: 99.00
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Application , Business , DNN 4.5.x , DotNetNuke 5 , E-Commerce , Email , Email List , Phone Directory , Private Assembly (PA) Included , DotNetNuke 4
Description 


DNN - Bulk Emailer (DNN 4 & 5) is an advanced reliable module replacement for the DotNetNuke Newsletters bulk email module. “Reliability” is the key to this module. The .net services used by other modules to send email is not reliable. No other module we have found uses anything close to the advanced programming and methods of queuing we have developed over the past 16 months to make this module what it is today.

 Now with Advanced OptIn List module

We have included a second Free module that allows you to manage your custom Campaign Lists. Wtih this OptIn module, you can create and manage custom lists that users of your website can easily OptIn to with a minimum of fuss.

 

Features of the OptIn Module include...

  • OptIn with email alone
  • Conditional Multi Campaign
  • Collect Additional Data like Name etc
  • Create DNN accounts with OptIn (optional)
  • Validate email addresses (optional)
  • Users can manage their own List Subscriptions
  • Change view orientation
  • Use Icons with the lists

WHY THIS MODLE?

Frustrated with DNN (DotNetNuke) NewsLetter Email feature?.... We sure were!

And for good reason... unfortunately the inherent .net services that DNN rely on for sending multiple / bulk email is flaky at best.
Anyone who has sent email to more than around 800 recipients at a time, and bothers to check that everyone is receiving the email will get a rude shock when they discover that the service is far from reliable.

Embarrassing if you have a client that is using your DNN services and expecting to get email messages from the website.
It turns out there are a lot of very good reason for DNN newsletter to stop sending part way through a bulk email send, and in fairness to the wonderful boys at the DNN core development team... most of the problems are nothing to do with DNN itself.

The problem we discovered was that sometimes it work and sometimes it does not. Either way, you never really know unless you are monitoring externally, and even then, you don’t know why.

We tried all sorts of tricks in creating a module that would send large numbers of email messages reliably. With much toil, trial and error, we are now sure that we have just the module to send multiple email messages from a DNN site to recipients.

 

 

In this module we have literally tried to anticipate all the potential problems that stop other email modules. These include but are not limited to:

  • Worker Process crash
  • Worker Process recycle
  • Worke Process stop
  • IIS restat
  • Low bandwith SMTP Server
  • SMTP server interruption
  • Security Role Selector
  • Link Click Tracking
  • Read Reporting 
  • Server Crash
  • SQL Server connection error.
  • Invalid email address
  • Server Memory errors
  • Time out porblems
  • Server Bog Down
  • Server Restart
  • Power Interruption
  • Bounce Email Tracking
  • Unsubscribe

 

Our Module

Standard DNN

Mailing Lists

Supports Double Opted In Mailing Lists.

Custom Lists or DNN Method

*Using registered Users and verified - rudimentary control can be accomplished.

Supports different mail delivery types

Text, Html, .doc, .docx

No

Unsubscribe

Yes

No

Override Unsubscribe

Yes

No

Multi List Filtering

Yes

No

Multi Email Removal

Yes

No

Email Management

Tracks Read responses

Yes

No

Tracks Click Through links embedded in emails

Yes

No

Campaign Management

Yes

No

View and Reuse historical Emails

Yes

No

Filter Email Duplication

Yes

No

Bounce Management

Supports Bounce Email Redirection

Yes

No

Filter all Email Lists with bounce list email addresses

Yes 

No

Scans Bounce E-Mail delivery mailbox and processes bounced emails automatically

Yes

No

Email Delivery

Supports Multi Thread processing

Yes

Supports Background thread in DNN 2.1,2

Background and re-startable EMail Message delivery

Automatic

Background Only

One queue for Portal Environment

Yes

One worker thread per email task.

Ability to throttle the email sends to prevent “spam” detection from mail server

Yes

No

Supports First In First Out Queuing

Yes

No

Supports Real Time Adjustment of Queues

Yes

No

Support DNN SMTP Settings

Yes

Yes

Additional Features

Support Import .xml or .csv lists

Yes

No

Supports Multi Custom List Sending

Yes

No

Supports Tokens from DNN profile Data fields

Yes

No

Supports Tokens from custom imports lists

Yes

No

6 Months Free Updates

Yes

Yes

Support Email attachments like .pdf files

Yes

Yes

 

 

Word to MHTML  

This is the most exciting feature we have added. We found that most of the end users of email modules really struggle with correctly formatting HTML messages. The end result was an email that looked very unprofessional and often would not format correctly in emial clients like hotmail.

 

To overcome this problem we created a feature that allows the end user to create their message in MS word (2000, 2002, 2003, 2007 .doc, .docx) and have the document turned into a correctly formatted mhtml message. The end result is a professional email message that will render like the word document at the client end.

 

HTML to MHTML

Using your preferred HTML editor and CSS locally to create an email message. You can then use IE7 to save the message as a .mht file. This can then be sent to users to deliver a complete viewable email messages that takes advantage of the features that mhtml offer.

Import Custom Lists 

You can send email to DNN site users, or import from a .csv or .xls file to custom created and managed email lists. This import will robustly work with 100's of 1000's of email addresses.

 

The importing of custom lists include additional fields for use with the Token System. First Name, Last Name, Display Name, Email Address.

 

 Contact Importing form your email clients

We have added the ability to see your contacts in the module and easily import 1 or all of them into the campeign.

 

Campaign Management 

Each email out is tracked as a campaign for management. You can view the progress of the campaign and access a past campaign for reference or resend.

 

Read Tracking

We have included the tracking of email messages, allowing you to see how effective your email campaigns are by way of read receipts.

 

 Link Tracking

Any links you have in your email messages are automatically tracked in the module. Each Link is tracked with an automatic thumbnail created to represent the page that the URL is linking to.

 Link Performance

Within the Link Tracking is the ability to monitor the performance of a link. This allows you to monitor how many people have clicked on a link in your email and gone to the page of interest to them.

 

 Campaign Building

Taking the tracking of responses to one campaign and generating a custom list or adding members automatically to a DNN security role based on their clicking habits. So for example you can send one campaign that is followed by a subsequent campaign to everyone who was interested in a product mentioned in the first.

 

Token Profile Data

We have included the ability to put tokens into your email messages (including the word documents) that allow you to pull custom DNN profile data and include it in your email message. This feature will allow you to personalise messages.

 

For example. If you create a profile item called "Hair Colour" in the DNN profile data, you could then include a token [Hair Colour: the colour of your hair]. Any user on the campaign that has a value for "Hair Colour" will have the data put in place of the token. Anyone who has a blank value will have "the colour of your hair" put in it's place.

First Name: [FirstName:your first name]

Last Name: [LastName:your last name]

Email: [Email:your email]

Country: [Country:your country]

Region: [Region:your region]

City: [City:your city]

Street: [Street:your street]

Unit: [Unit:your unit]

Postal Code: [PostalCode: your postal code]

Telephone: [Telephone:your telephone]

Cell/Mobile: [Cell: your cell]

Fax: [Fax:your fax]

Website: [Website:your website]

IM: [IM:your im]

 

Simple Unsubscribe

By using a token, you can have an unsubscribe system that is a single click for users. They will be identified by the email address that the email was sent to, and that address will be added to a block list. No future email messages will be sent to that blocked email address.

 

There is an option to override blocked email addresses for emergency communications.

 

There is an unsubscribe setting that allows you to define a URL for users to contact you and or report abuse. This can be configured by you to any URL.

 

Blocked Email List Management

You can view, manually add or remove email addresses from the blocked email address list.

 

 

Duplication Removal

Because you may be sending to a combination of many email lists, the Bulk Emailer will build a send list and remove any email duplications. This ensures that recipients only receive 1 email from you. It gives you the confidence to draw in custom lists from many locations.

 

Email Attachments

You can add an uploaded file to send out as an email attachment.

 

Control Scheduler

There is a scheduler that runs the submitted jobs from your DNN websites. This can be controlled to meter the flow of outbound email messages to your SMTP server.

 

Monitor the Send Progress

Campaigns can be monitored in real time to see their progress. This is achieved with a java progress bar that accurately follows the scheduler and send progress.

 

Uses default SMTP setting in DNN

The module is designed to work with the SMTP settings in your DNN website. This means there is 0 configuration required in the setup of the module. 


Simple to Install  As with all the modules we produce, this module will in install in all the listed versions (see below) of DNN with ease. A single PA install file makes the install and deletion process a breeze.

 

 


Small and Fast 

Even though the module is feature rich in the back end with how it sorts data and queues email messages for sending, we have worked hard to keep the performance of your server in mind at all times. The behind seen operation of this module will not have significant impact on your servers.

 


New Menu System
We have created a simple to use menu system for configuring the module. The current release does not require this, however future versions updates will call on our standard simple menu.

 

 

 Conditional Menu Selector

We know that many deployments of this module will be for users with specific needs. For this reason we created a conditional roles selector for the DNN security roles. For Example if you have the following security roles:

  • Male
  • Female
  • Purchase Product A
  • Purchase Product B

 

With our conditional roles selector you could create a table that made it easy for the end user to select a conditional send.

 

Sex

Male

Female

Purchases

Product A

Product B

 

So assuming you wanted to send an email to people who are in the Male "role" and in the Product A "role", the Conditional Menu Selector will make this task easy.


It Works

Many of us have experienced frustrations with expensive modules that don't work. The either break or don't work as advertised. Our dedication to this working module is evident in the fact that we have sold hundreds of working modules and continue to develop all of our modules as a full time effort. This is what we do!


Built In Help

The module contains help icons that actually contain helpful information. Imagine that! This assists users who are not programmers and don’t want to be.

 

Upgrade Path

As we continue development of this module, we will continue to release enhancements to users who have purchased this module. With each purchase you will receive 6 months of free upgrades.


Special Note

We are particularly proud of this module. It solves a serious problem for us with our clients needing to send email to multiple thousands of users. We tiptoed through a minefield of problems along the way and are proud to say that the resulting module will solve the 1000 and above email issues with DNN .

 

Specification

Description

Database

SQL Server 2000, 2005, and Express

DNN Versions

DNN 4.5.5 and Above including DNN 5+ (not beta)

Download Package Contents

PA Install Files for supported DNN Versions; Comprehensive Help Links online.

Source Code

Source code is not available for the module.

Version History

Here

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 5.00 (2 reviews)
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Andrew Z says... 5.0

Great product, great support - the MS Word feature helps a lot, very user friendly!

Posted 3/16/2009

Mermaid Beach SLSC Web Site A says... 5.0

This is a very easy module to use and does all that you would expect of a professional bulk emailing utility. I particular like the campaign reporting that gives you a clear picture of what's gone out and who's read it. The real point of difference, however, is in the quality of support provided by the folks at InteractiveWeb.com.au. They sorted out my SMTP issues by getting their hands dirty ... that is, by helping me set everything up so that it was running smooth and sweet. Thanks DF and the other folks at IW for great support and a great product!

Posted 11/9/2008

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Q:  I wish you had 2 things - 1) An auto-responder like iContact so when I get a new client he/she automatically gets 1 or more emails sent to him on a schedule. 2) The ability to schedule email campaigns. Example I would like to send out an email today and a different follow-up emails in 30, 60 and 90 days from today. Are you considering adding either of these two features?
A:  Point 2 has been built and is ready for release. Point 1 is being built now.

Q:  If the client has a DNN site with Catalook ecommerce. Could the client sign up for the news letter on checkout and have the information details from check out fill the form for registration? If so, is this tough to install? If not how would you suggest this sign up work?
A:  This is a feature that we looked at, but decided was not necessary. With Catalook, you can set the sales to create a user account for your clients, and to put them into a DNN security role at the point of sale. This way you can use our module to send email to either all registered users, or the security role of the product in question. If a person does not want to get any more mail from you. They opt out once, and will never get a bulk email again.

Q:  I'm looking for a newsletter module for DotNetNuke 4.9.x, to convince a customer to switch to DotNetNuke. The mosule should have the following features: Newsletter editing: * Newsletter in HTML format, WYSIWYG preview. * Stored newsletter templates / skins, so that all newsletters have the same look (same header, footer, colors etc.). * Ability to create different newsletter categories for different user groups, where each category has its own template / skin. * Ability to send newsletters to all categories. * Newsletter archive, where old newsletters can be copied and edited to create a new one. Subscription: * Opt-in subscribing; subscribing without registration; one click unsubscribing from within the newsletter. * Users can subscribe to more than one newsletter category. Sending: * Automatic sending on a given date. * Batch sending, to prevent mail server overload (3000+ recipients). * configurable sender address. * Bounce mail statistics, with the ability to delete the bounce mail adresses from the subscribers list. * Distinction between hardbounces and softbounces. Import/export: Import/export subscribers from/to Excel/CSV file; in particular export bounce mail adresses to Excel / CSV file. Optional: * Connection to an external commercial bulk mail sending service. I'd be glad if your module implements most or all of the required features, and I'm awating your reply. Thank you!
A:  Our module covers most of these features with the exception of a few. You cannot lock down templates to security roles. Template Management is done via your Text HTML editor or MS Word Template. News archive is informative only, and cannot be used to quickly send the same letter. This is what templates are for. No limit set for sending numbers. But we also have features not mentioned. Link click tracking Read reports MS word to MHTML sending. It is free to try. So downlaod from our site and see what you think!

Q:  Hi I need to have to able to submit and email at say 5pm and then have it sent the following day and 8am. Is this kind of scheduling available? thanks
A:  Not yet, but give us a couple of weeks. That sounds like a good feature and we will build that in.

Q:  Does this have a signup option where you can put a model on your site for people to sign up for one or more mailings? Also allow them to change what mailings they signed up for?
A:  Yes it does. There is an advanced subscription module included in the package.

Q:  We have a site that has over 7000+ members. the newsletter module doesn't deliver emails to all the users. Also, my hoster (godaddy.com) has a cap on no. of emails that can be sent daily. Once the no. of emails hit the daily limit the remaining are queued for the next day. I am wondering if this module can take care of the no. of the users we have and the hoster limitation? thanks
A:  Yes, the module sends 50 email messages per tymer cycle. so if you find out the Go daddy cap.. say 1000 per day. Then set the time to run say every 90 min. You would not reach the cap and would still have room for the odd form post email etc. Or just use a non go daddy smtp server.

Q:  Can we email balst an html email with embeded images with this module?
A:  Yes, you can send html with images. Easy way is to use the free tial period to test. Grab the module at our site.

Q:  I want a set of simple subscribe/registration fields in a container on the home page (i.e. Name, Email) and then use the DNN role to control the subscriber list. Am I correct in assuming I will need to buy a separate module to handle the simple registration?
A:  We currently achive this by getting people to register on the website, and using a role like Registered users or another auto assign role. Then when signed up, we can send to users who are part of that role. Alternatively using our Feedback Designer module to capture data to database, then exporting and importing as a custom list. In the very near furute we will be releasing an advanced signup module as part of the bulk emailer.

Q:  Hello. Let's say we have a group of users we want to send emails to. Some of these users are in one DNN role, others are in another role, and some are in both roles. For example: * We have 200 users in a "Customer Role" * We have 100 users in a "Mailing List" role * There are some users, but not all, who are in both roles. Can we send an email to all users in a given role or a set of roles? Furthermore, if we want to send an email to users in both roles, will it duplicate the message to users who are in both, or can it send only one unique message to each user, regardless of how many of the sending roles they are in? For example, can we select to send the email to both the Customers and Mailing List roles, and if so, will it send two emails to users who are in both roles, or will it keep them unique? Thanks!
A:  Hi.. it sounds like it will do what you want. You can select 1 or several roles in the dnn site. Then you can combine this with custom lists and then combine this with user imports from Outlook etc. Any message that is sent will treat each email address as seperate. So no matter how many lists or roles an email address appears on, the address will only receive one email message.

Q:  Do you have the following funtions in this module? Categories (multiple lists) Secondary SMTP (use a different mail server than the website uses). And the possibility of paid custom module development to make those happen.
A:  I am not sure about categories.. but we to have multiple lists available. The only SMTP feature currently is the DNN website settings. We would be interested in working with you on these features. Please use the contact us form on our website to request this. www.interactivewebs.com

Q:  Is there an API available so I can integrate some of this functionality into my modules? I manage a baseball league and have modules that send out game reminders automatically. As you've pointed out the out of the box smtp code does not work as well as I would like so am looking for something that I can integrate with that just works.
A:  There is no API available now. However we would like to work with you to include this. Please contact us via our form on http://www.interactivewebs.com

Q:  Hi, Do you have an enterprise license version as I am currently comparing your product to before I decide which one to purchase. http://www.snowcovered.com/Snowcovered2/DotNetNuke/Modules/Advanced-Email-and-News-Manager-270-Enterprise-Edition/id/6481 Many Thanks Lee
A:  Lee, Thanks for the enquiry. Yes we do have a licensing model for multiple licenses. http://www.interactivewebs.com.au/Store/tabid/161/List/0/ProductID/31/Language/en-AU/Default.aspx?SortField=ProductName%2cProductName You can purchase our product for as little as $8.50 per license. These can be resold at any price you wish to anyone.

Q:  I want to send a series of seminars that goes out once every week starting when they sign up for my web site. Is this possible with your module.
A:  The module cannot automatically send content. Each week you will have to create and send the email message. But assuming this is what you are talking about. Then yes. As a user signs up to your site they become a registered user. Sending an email each week to registered users will include new additions to the site.

Q:  I purchased and am using version 40.01.07 of the Bulk Emailer. It is great! Do you offer an upgrade price to existing users?
A:  The new version can be used, and we will give you 1 license. The new version is a 1 domain 1 license setup. So please do not upgrade if you do not want to operate under this arrangement.

Q:  i like this very much. 2 questions: #1 - can i set it to use a custom smtp server/login? i don't want it to use the default host one. #2 - how does the throttling works? i use google app's gmail for our mail service, and they have a max of 500 send each day, can i set the mailer to send like 400 each day? thanks.
A:  Unfortunatley we have not yet built this level of control into the module. Our intention was that this would work with man thousands of users, and not really intended for the 400 a day type of bulk email. You are the second person to ask, so now we are thinking about other features and this may be one we include... but at this time we are integrating the module into MS Dynamics CRM to give that application a bulk email ability. So we are several months off looking at your feature request.

Q:  Do I understand your product? Let me know if the statements below are correct. People receiving the email do not have to be members of my dnn portal. I can use xls files to load multiple lists People can opt-out Thanks
A:  This is correct. Easy way to evaluate, is to use the Free Trial version of our software available at: http://www.interactivewebs.com.au/Downloads/tabid/163/language/en-AU/Default.aspx

Q:  Question, the unsubscribe feature with a single click, does this actually remove the user from the newsletters role, or just take them off of a list? Also, Onyakteck has token based templates which allow you to generate tokens based on SQL statements, which I find necessary as I can recreate url's for last forum post for a certain forum, etc. really whatever I want this is very powerful feature. Is this something you plan to implement or currently support?
A:  The unsubscribe feature actually adds the email address to a list. When a new email message is sent from any reference, be it lists, user roles, or imported contacts... the module compiles a list of people to send to, removed duplications, then removed email addresses on the unsubscribe list. This way.. is someone says "hay... don't email me" they will not get emailed unless you tick the override option. We have tokens that reference Profile data on the DNN site. SQL tokesn is something we have listed to include in the future. No specific date yet.

Q:  I have the trial of Email 40.02.01 on my desk top. I wish to import my outlook contact list. I saved it to excel 2003 csv on my desk top and attempted to import under email list management. It comes back with an Error email format message. My excel doc is saved in csv with only one column that is email addresses only. 1. Does my csv file have to be on my website (which is what the help sounds like) My site is hosted off site so I can't just browse for the file. 2. Can I import the file in another format? 3. What would you suggest the problem might be? Thank you - it looks like exactly the module I have been looking for!
A:  The problem is probably a formatting problem. Use the template .xls file provided in the download to guide you. Clear details are here in the manual. http://www.interactivewebs.com.au/bulkemailer/Help/tabid/534/language/en-AU/Default.aspx We suggest you paste your data into the .xls file provided. This will give a good result.

Q:  Oh, one more thing.........how do you add an attachmeent to the email?
A:  The attachment is described here: http://www.interactivewebs.com.au/bulkemailer/Help/tabid/534/language/en-AU/Default.aspx in the manual. Or from the send page. Click the + to show additional options. It is in there.

Q:  Is there a manual for this somewhere, the stuff on your site isn't much help. First, I cannot get it to accept an xls file nor will it take .doc or .docx cleanly. They have control characters everywhere. The unsubscribe tokens do not seem to work where ever you put them.
A:  There is a manual on the site: http://www.interactivewebs.com.au/bulkemailer/Help/tabid/534/language/en-AU/Default.aspx .xls is best done using the sample xls spreadsheet provided in the download package.

Q:  Hi, Does your Bulk Emailer module support templating ? Jav
A:  Yes the module can do templates in HTML, Word .doc, or .docx or mhtml.
 
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