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Re: mailchimp for odoo 10?
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Twanda AG, Ermin Trevisan
Hi Alexandre My experience so far (hoping it gives some help/hints/insights): I'm using Odoo's CE mass mailing module, even if the email templates are not responsive and maybe not that nice and easy to create and not as variable as for example with mailchimp, because setting up an interface as you have mentioned (exporting contacts, importing campaign data) is by far out of my technical reach. I do not use my own SMTP service (postfix for example) in order to not be involved too much with all the blacklisting/spam issues you would have to control yourself. So far I have been using Amazon SES (Simple Email Service) as SMTP servers in Odoo and I have setup all my customer's email domains and verifications and DNS entries required for SPF, DKIM and DMARC. This works fine and I get all statistics in Odoo automatically (received, read, bounced etc.) but there are 2 pitfalls: 1. In Odoo you can't use a second SMTP server for example for mass mailing only, so it would be simple to use just one SMTP server (in this case the bulk SMTP server) for sending all emails. But: 2. Amazon and many other bulk SMTP providers do not allow email relaying, therefore you can't use Amazon SES for example for your regular Odoo mail sending for example in order to get email notifications based on third-party emails received by Odoo (sender not known). At the moment I'm manually switching the priority of the SMTP server in Odoo for mass mailings. Hence I'm looking also into using mailgun as SMTP, because it seems not to have the same email relaying restrictions. But the best solution in my opinion would be an Odoo module which allows to use a second SMTP server for mass mailing only. HTH, trevi -- twanda AG Ermin Trevisan Artherstrasse 19 CH-6318 Walchwil T +41 41 758 1515 M +41 79 208 7373 E trevi@twanda.com www.twanda.ch www.gastrosoftware.ch
