PloneNewsLetter: A Plone product for sending newsletters with Portal
Content to an email address in TXT and HTML format.

PloneNewsLetter is a content type for Plone :

  - User creates a PloneNewsLetter object, set its title,
    description, etc

  - User selects content published on the website between two
    dates (automated)

  - User click on 'send' and newsletter is sent to ONE email adress
    (admin should set up a newsletter delivery system to forward
    this email to all subscribers), in both HTML and text format 
    (customizable ZPT inside) 

  - If the user publishes this content, all users will see the HTML 
    version of the newsletter. That way the the newsletter is 
    automatically archived online.

PloneNewsLetter consists of two object:

  - A content type, for users

  - A Portal Tool, for settings

There is a property sheet in portal_properties/newsletter_properties,
where you can modify the following values used by PloneNewsletter:

    email: The email address to send the newsletter to by default.
           This will be set to the email address found in the Plone Site
           object at the root. 

    days_offset: The number of days to look back for content that should
           become part of the Newsletter. As a default, this is set to
           15 days.

    excluded_content_types: You can specify content types that should never
           be searched for. 

    default_content_types: This is a list of content types that are searched
           for by default. As a default, this is set to all content types 
           as they are found in the types_tool.

Customization:

   To customize the newsletter layout, just customize the following templates:

      newsletter_body_html.pt

      newsletter_body_txt.pt

UML documentation:

   See doc folder of PloneNewsLetter!

      PloneNewsLetter/doc/PloneNewsLetterDetails.gif

      PloneNewsLetter/doc/PloneNewsLetterTabs.gif

API Documentation:

   http://ingeniweb.sourceforge.net/Products/PloneNewsletter/api/PloneNewsletter.html

Information about PloneNewsletter can be found at:

   http://ingeniweb.sourceforge.net/Products/PloneNewsletter

