[TYPO3-english] [Direct Mail] How to send out multilingual newsletters, can it be done ?

[René van Densen]

Olivier, thanks for the advice. It actually put me on a track to bypass it
altogether.
When subscribing, I already had the query that inserted new users, insert
the language value into the unused 'country' field. (So for instance, all
users registering from the Dutch version of the page had 'nl' in their
Country field). I now simply created three recipients' lists with custom
query, and had the query look for these values. So now I have three
recipients' lists (EN, FR, NL).
As long as a newsletter is created for each of them, this will work.

It's a shame though, that the multilingual bit isn't implemented into
DirectMail. Would have made everything a whole lot easier !

Thanks,

René van Densen

On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 8:25 PM, Olivier Dobberkau <olivier.dobberkau at dkd.de
> wrote:

> On 19.08.09 17:21, René van Densen wrote:
>
> > Can anyone help me ? I'm willing to modify DirectMail module itself but
> it's
> > kind of massive and I'd at least need to know where to look. Where is the
> > page rendering made, for instance ?
>
> Hi René.
>
> You have found one of the last missing features of directmail. :-)
> it is due of some historical issues that it does not handle languages
> out of the box.
>
> one solution could be that you try to add the syslanguage to your
> tt_address table.
>
> then to create 3 different newsletters and using special query send the
> newsletter to the recipients according to the syslanguage.
>
> greetings.
>
> olivier
>