Suggestion: further control of user acct create notification

Worker Joined: Jul 06, 2005 Posts: 172

I'm in the process of integrating RN 2.30.02 with third party email parsers. I need the ability to automatically add new user accounts to my third party email manager (currently AWeber). AWeber has a parser, but I need emails to be sent there.

This is what I would like to have accomplished, and perhaps it's worth working on for a future release:

1) The ability to send the account creation notification email to a custom email address (can be admin address by default but user customizable address would be fantastic). This would allow me to setup a dedicated account for new user notifications and that account can also forward a copy to my email parser address.

2) Checkbox style configuration of which fields to include in the new account creation (eg. standard fields like Real Name, email address, etc, AND custom fields that are created under RNYA).

3) Email should come from site admin instead of being sent from the user's email account

I'm going to try to get the functionality I need going for now, but I don't have the skills to code all of these features like a UI addon. I'm not even sure how to pull the custom fields into it. I'll start a thread elsewhere on doing this for the time being but thought I'd throw the suggestion in there anyways.

Posted: Mon Sep 14, 2009 1:16 pm

OK hopefully I can answer a few of your points.

1) I would create a custom email address and box on your hosting account to receive your notifications and then automatically forward the email to whether you want.

2) You can choose which custom fields you want shown at registration through the Edit Users menu.

3) Does it really matter?

Posted: Mon Sep 14, 2009 1:18 pm

Thanks for the suggestions, they will be considered once RN2.4 is out the door.

A question for you and maybe a suggestion: how does AWeber maintain its files? Is it just a "flat" sequential text file? In other words something like lastname, firstname, email address, other info?

And, with its parser does Aweber reject automatically duplicate emails?

If so and if you have some basic MYSQL capabilities it would be easy enough to write a program that would extract your user table (and custom fields also) data to a flat file that you could pass to Aweber. There is also some code lying around that will extract all the fields from a MYSQL table into Excel format. Hummm ... I think you can even do that in PHPmyadmin.

I know that's not as convenient as having things done automagically but it will probably be a while before you see your suggestions in RN, even assuming that we can get to it at all.

Posted: Mon Sep 14, 2009 2:16 pm

You can upload table data, choose your delimiter, etc. So getting it into there isn't a problem. The main purpose of using a service is to have the auto-responders all setup, so it needs to be instant when someone registers (hence the need for email output of fields and all that). Click tracking, split testing, segmentation, etc, are all things I use. So when I get this to work it'll be nice.

Just throwing out ideas and if they ever make it in that's cool. In the meantime I can probably meddle my way through it with help from the more advanced people here. I'm a novice Very Happy

Posted: Mon Sep 14, 2009 2:44 pm

Thanks again. One thing you might want to check out is the html newsletter within Ravennuke. It will let you send out newsletters via email to all of your users or to specified groups. It is not a true mailing manager but it might do some of what you want.

registered · Posted: Wed Sep 16, 2009 6:23 pm

Hhhhmmmm... maybe we need to invent nukeHOOKS(tm). Where we strategically place hooks into RavenNuke(tm) where additional "plug-ins" can be installed to take advantage. Gee, would help with all this talk about bridging to third party apps rather than integrating them in... Wink

registered · Site Admin Joined: Jun 04, 2004 Posts: 6437

montego wrote:

...maybe we need to invent nukeHOOKS(tm)...

You can have that one, montego. Wink