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What's News is a newsletter writing module for PostNuke with a long past.  Originaly written by LadyOfDragons (who has since moved on to Xaraya), it was adopted by Oliver Gading around 2002.  After a period of intense development activity, development ceased.  I don't know why.  I was one of those beta testers, and the module was nearly fully functional with only a few minor glitches to resolve.  Oliver's web site is still up, but obviously unmaintained.  I have tried to contact him from time to time about an update with no response.

I now have need of this module in a production environment, so I have taken it upon myself to clean it up and release it.  Oliver deserves most of the credit for getting it this far; I had relatively little to do to finish it off: convert a could of old functions to pnAPI, tweak email formatting, fix a few little bugs.  But I hope putting this back into circulation will help others out.  Contributions are welcome; I do not yet have it under source control, but it could be when needed.

Features:

• Unlimited number of newsletters
• Unlimited "plugins" for each newsletter
  • a "plugin" is an individual content item, such as "latest News"
  • Plugins can be exported and imported, allowing easy trading of plugins between sites.
  • Each plugin can specify a SQL or RSS source query, SQL "LIMIT", start date, end date, minimum trigger value, and header, row and footer templates for both html and text version results.
• Subscription by registered users and by simple emial addresses
• substantial testing tools, such as "Generate" to see html & text version output, preview html email, & send "test" emails to admin.
• Send Now or an interface to cron jobs.
• sendmail or SMTP.
• lots more...

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