Talking Drupal

  Uses of Email Transaction/Service E-Mails - one email to the single person for a particular purpose.  ie. Reset Password, Shipping Confirmation... Bulk Email - send to the group of people.  ie. Newsletter, Forum subscriptions… User communication - personal contact or something like basecamp Impact the type of service and tools you will use Getting Started With HTML EMails Drupal out of the box will only send plain text emails Need an SMTP server setup on your web server or use this: SMTP Authentication Support Module Structure of HTML email HTML E-Mails From Drupal (Creating and Sending) Simple News (Module) Create E-mails content Mime Mail Enhances the abilities of Drupal to send HTML Emails Allows for email attachments Mandrill / Mail System (service by Mailchimp) Can replace the need for an SMTP server Has statistics for e-mails sent Can setup rules (within the Mandrill service) to change e-mail attributes before sending HTML E-mails From Outside