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What tutorials would you like to see?
Posted: Wed Feb 14, 2007 9:33 am
by Chris Corbyn
If you're playing around with the release candidates you may have noticed I'm in the process of scribbling notes/documentation in
the wiki.
While I'm at it... does anybody have any requests for what tutorials should be included? I have so far:
Basic sending
Multipart sending
Attachments
Including Cc, Bcc
Batch sending (newsletters)
I know "How to write a contact form" is going to come up so I'll throw that in. Any others?

Posted: Wed Feb 14, 2007 9:42 am
by feyd
Seems to cover the primitives pretty much everything else would be based on.
Would multi-part cover sending of html emails with graphics included? That's the only other topic I could think of that may crop up.
Posted: Wed Feb 14, 2007 9:46 am
by Chris Corbyn
Well, come to think of it, I haven't actually explained how you'd do something like send a HTML email with an image in no... My problem is that I assume people will just try the obvious approach and put <img .. /> in the email but I guess it's worth mentioning.
Embedded images certainly need a mention, cheers for the nudge on that.
Posted: Sun Feb 18, 2007 8:04 pm
by jbh
A confirmatoin on the most resource friendly way to personalize through a large list (though I was able to get it to work in the earlier version, using a loop one at a time, with the anti-flood plugin, it worried me) AND use variable for the $to info
Doing that would set this above anything else and leave a flood of donations IMHO
Thank you
Posted: Mon Feb 19, 2007 12:46 am
by Chris Corbyn
You also use a loop in v3, but I've built the whole Message Object in v3 which does a great deal of caching, on the smallest units of the email it can. If something changes (e.g. The subject) it only re-renders that component and doesn't go near anything else. I'll make a tutorial on it. I will make a template plugin like there was in v2 but it will probably only be doing the same thing

Posted: Mon Feb 19, 2007 1:06 am
by alex.barylski
Just curious (off topic - my apologies)
But accepting donations for SwiftMailer...would it pay the bills or is it just enough to cover hosting and some development costs?
How much do you ring in a month if you don't min me asking?
Posted: Mon Feb 19, 2007 6:50 am
by Chris Corbyn
I'm getting zilch at the moment. I've had $20USD since xmas... literally.
When I had my Mac fund going I got over £400 (about $700USD?) in roughly 5 months. It wouldn't pay the bills no

Posted: Mon Feb 19, 2007 12:43 pm
by jbh
Well, I'll try to help change that. There are people screaming at me (not literall) to have a solution like yours in my software. I will certianly donate over time.
One can't make guarantees, but I'd at least make an effort to make people conscious of it.
I'd gladly pay $20/30 to know how to use the new version for a resource friendly bulk perosnalization to those who opt-in for my site/software
Posted: Tue Apr 10, 2007 12:03 pm
by Luke
any word on that batch sending tutorial? I need to send out a newsletter and allow my client to write an email that is sent to like 200-1000 people. That shouldn't be too difficult, right?
Posted: Tue Apr 10, 2007 12:43 pm
by Chris Corbyn
Nope sorry nothing yet. I probably won't get time later, but basically it's quite simple yeah. Do you want to get all 1000 out in one page request? I may hold out until the
new document manager is finished (2 days?) since once that's done I can pretty much launch the new site as the other bits can be added in like 10 mins
If you're looking for message customization, take a look at the decorator plugin in the plugin section of the wiki. I'm seriously gonna sort all that documentation out asap
