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What secure newsletter components to Joomla! do you recommend? Thanks in advance for your advice (and apologies if I am posting in the wrong area).

Diane,

Can you tell us what version of Joomla you are using?

Hi there:

I'm using Joomla 1.0.15 at this time.

I'm pretty careful when i'm doing mass mailing and I usually advise a clients to do mass mailing through a third party company that does mass mailing for a living.

1. You can't be to careful with your domain. Mass mailing from your server or domain can cause issues with people marking you as spam. You could run the risk of your ISP banning you or worst having your domain marked as spam by larger providers.

2. Third party solutions have better tracking of your mailing campaign.

3. Following CAN-SPAM laws are very very important. 3rd party companies usually force you to comply.

Joomlashack.com as something that should work for you if you want to use a third party solution.
you can read more about it at this link. This is a pretty nice written API to icontact.com
http://www.joomlashack.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=195

Good luck !

Thanks for the advice. We haven't decided if we will be doing a newsletter but wanted to have something in place just in case we decide to go that route. It would be a strictly opt-in registered Joomla user newsletter subscription, btw.

I would suggest using YANC newsletter component. But I have to admit that I have tried them all and I ended up going to icontact.com for my mailing provider. Gary is very correct about being careful with adhering to the CAN-SPAM guidelines. I can tell you that the paid mailing services like icontact have so many more features than any Joomla component could ever hope to have.

I did a ton of research on so many different paid services and I used all of their demo and trial periods to find on that was the most feature rich and icontact.com was the one for me.
Just do your research for your particular needs.

I agree with Gary, 3rd party solution works the best if you have many users. For a small group use an.extension, I'd recommend Acajoom component.

I second Acajoom component. I use it for my disc golf newsletter (100+ and growing) with very little issues.

Our company has created a Joomla Mass Mailing component that is free to download and use. The component connects to constantcontact.com.

If anyone would like give it a try you can download it free. You can also sign up for 2 free months
at this link

2 Free months Constantcontact.com

Link: Download Joomla Mass Mailing Component

Gary Brooks
MichiganMedia.net

Any updates on this?

Sounds like we've got Constant Contact
We've got AcaJoom
We've got iContact

Any other recommendations folks?

Although not a Joomla component, I have used PHPList (www.phplist.com/) successfully in the past, and integrated it into Joomla sites using Jumi (see extensions.joomla.org/component/option,com_mtree/task,viewlink/link_id,1023/Itemid,35/).

The trade-off is that Joomla/PHPList user accounts are not automatically integrated, however, this setup can work well if you only need to provide an e-mail newsletter signup for your end users.

Justin Kerr wrote:
Although not a Joomla component, I have used PHPList (www.phplist.com/) successfully in the past, and integrated it into Joomla sites using Jumi (see extensions.joomla.org/component/option,com_mtree/task,viewlink/link_id,1023/Itemid,35/).

The trade-off is that Joomla/PHPList user accounts are not automatically integrated, however, this setup can work well if you only need to provide an e-mail newsletter signup for your end users.

Hi, there are some integrate solution for phplist, you can check out there: http://extensions.joomla.org/component/option,com_mtree/task,listcats/cat_id,1881/Itemid,35/