News Letter Posting System

[Pulserider]

I hope for some advice. I'm looking for a system where I want to send news letters to different persons. They log in with a username and password, then they acknowledge that they open it. When they acknowledge it, it keep record of it in some form of database. Any systems like this out somewhere?

 

[rpm]

There are many newsletter systems, and most of them do the same.

Free: Phplist (http://www.phplist.com/)
Paid: too many to mention

 

[guest2013-1]

I'd go the paid route, you benefit from having white listed mail servers send your stuff. iContact is one of the better ones. It tracks everything from how many people opened your mail, who unsubscribed/complained, which links were clicked etc

Pretty awesome software

 

[zamicro]

And I am one of the people who refuses to open those newsletters, unless I explicitly subscribed to it.

 

[murraybiscuit]

you can track bounces & campaign success (google analytics integration) on most bulk mail software
i'm not sure about the login story. if you have to confirm receipt, and are using it more as secure delivery platform than a sales marketing exercise, ignore the below suggestions.

in order of preference:

mailchimp - great cms & api functionality, free for sme needs, most extensive featureset imo
campaignmonitor - good for white-labelled resales
constantcontact - features wider suite of communications software

 

[biometrics]

We use www.campaignmonitor.com

 

[Pulserider]

I think somehow I miss express this question. I want something for only internal use. It is only for PDF news letters. Like clicking on a link and then a user acknowledge that he read it and the data get stored in a database for later review who access their PDF news letters.

 

[guest2013-1]

I think somehow I miss express this question. I want something for only internal use. It is only for PDF news letters. Like clicking on a link and then a user acknowledge that he read it and the data get stored in a database for later review who access their PDF news letters.

Then you're not looking for a newsletter posting system.

You want someone to click a link on a PDF that goes back to your internal IIS site with a piece of code that says "User XYZ read it" and have that stored in a database.

So this begs to question. What is your server environment like. Do you even have a server?

<%
strConn = "your connection string here"
Set cn = Server.CreateObject("ADODB.Connection")
cn.Open strConn
Set rs = Server.CreateObject("ADODB.Recordset")
rs.Execute("insert into yourtable (user,whenread) values ('" & request("user") & "',now())",cn)
cn.Close
%>

Then in your PDF link:

http://yourserver/readuser.asp?user=UserNameThatOpened

Won't work perfectly since the PDF will probably not be able to contain the recipient, but, again, depending on your server enviroment, if you use Active Directory etc, you'd need to make adjustments for it.

Where is your IT team?

 

[Fulmine]

Then you're not looking for a newsletter posting system.

You want someone to click a link on a PDF that goes back to your internal IIS site with a piece of code that says "User XYZ read it" and have that stored in a database.

So this begs to question. What is your server environment like. Do you even have a server?

<%
strConn = "your connection string here"
Set cn = Server.CreateObject("ADODB.Connection")
cn.Open strConn
Set rs = Server.CreateObject("ADODB.Recordset")
rs.Execute("insert into yourtable (user,whenread) values ('" & request("user") & "',now())",cn)
cn.Close
%>

Then in your PDF link:

http://yourserver/readuser.asp?user=UserNameThatOpened

Won't work perfectly since the PDF will probably not be able to contain the recipient, but, again, depending on your server enviroment, if you use Active Directory etc, you'd need to make adjustments for it.

Where is your IT team?

Holy Crap have not looked a classic asp for so long nearly did not recognise the code.

Would be nice to have used a sp and a on error go to next

 

[guest2013-1]

Holy Crap have not looked a classic asp for so long nearly did not recognise the code.

Would be nice to have used a sp and a on error go to next

lol yea, I learned Classic ASP so whenever I do "pseudo code" I do it in that