Opt-in Mailing List Manager

[snipe]

Okay, this is different than my other post about a MailMan archiver. A few of the sites I run currently offer opt-in newsletters. I have a decent enough program to handle it (Subscribe Me Enterprise Edition - don't know if it was worth $200, but anyway...).

 

I have recently moved back to Subscribe Me from 1-2-ALL (php based list manager). 1-2-ALL was, in general, an utter disappointment, made worse by the fact that I *paid* for it. (Being a programming, I don't usually pay for scripts - I can just as easily build my own). There were bugs in it, and the guy was kind of rude when I would ask him where in the code the thing I needed to fix was (because the code has ZERO inline documentation and is, overall, haphazard and hard to read)

 

Subscribe Me is perl based, which is fine I suppose, tho it does make it harder to integrate into the existing php/mysql user management systems. If I'm stuck with Subscribe Me, I can live with that I suppose, but it doesn't do a few things which are kind of key. (ironically, some of these are things that 1-2-ALL did, but it still wasn't worth staying with them)

 

- in the subscribe process, be able to set additional fields of my choice. For example, if I want to do state-specific action alert releases, I need to know what state they live in. 1-2-ALL lets you add an additional field, but it doesn't let you do the second thing I need, which is to send out newsletters *based* on the additonal information collected.

 

- archiving. 1-2-ALL does this, Subscribe Me does not. Its less critical, but a nice feature.

 

I have now collecrtively spent $400 on list software, and none of it really does what I want. Anyone have any suggestions?

 

PHPList looked promising, but its confusing and hard to use.

[surefire]

Have you tried DadaMail? It's perl based but a very nice program.

 

By the way, I took some time to look at the links at the bottom of your signature... excellent work.

[kaseytraeger]

snipe,

 

I've never used this one, but last year I looked into it when I was going to have a newsletter for my personal web site. You should check it out. It's PHP-based. By the way, I ended up not implementing a newsletter/mailing list, which is why I didn't go forward with installing this program.

 

tincan.co.uk/phplist (not www.tincan.co.uk/phplist)

 

Good luck!