For the mailing to users

_Ricky_

Hello,

I am planing to convert to Vanilla . I have few questions though:

1. Do we have mass mailing in vanilla (like if want to send monthly newsletter ).
2. Does it support HTML
3. Can we throttle mass mailing ie. say I have 10K members , does it send mails in batches like few hundreds per hour ?

hgtonight

I highly suggest connecting to an email newsletter service like sendgrid, mandrill, or mail chimp.

_Ricky_

So does that means there is no inbuilt mail scheduler or throttling yet, what about HTML support in mails ?

vrijvlinder

what about HTML support in mails ?

Yes, you would need to add a simple config line

$Configuration['Garden']['Email']['MimeType']= 'text/html';

_Ricky_

Thanks, so if we don't want to use third party mail service, there is no mass mailing ?

vrijvlinder

No, you would need to rely on your hosting provider. If you are hosting it locally then you would need to use an external service.

hgtonight

Ricky said:
Thanks, so if we don't want to use third party mail service, there is no mass mailing ?

You can easily get the addresses of users as an admin. Vanilla has no built in way to queue mail messages, they are all sent at the moment they are generated. This means sending the email needs to happen before the timeout occurs.