Postal: New feature - contacts list

[ro78]

Hello,

I think it can be nice, inside a mail server or inside an organization, to create a contact list.

A simple form or file import, with list of email addresses, like [email protected] and [email protected].
When contact list is created, an unique ID is generated and assigned to it.
Then, with only 1 email sent to "ID"@my_postal_domain.com, Postall will automatically dispatch this email to all contacts.

A plus will be to be able to add variables to each contacts (like firstname, lastname, etc), and ask Postal to automatically replace values in the body of the email (example, replace %FIRSTNAME% by the value of the FIRSTNAME variable.

Another one, will be to have an unsubscribe header automatically added to these emails, with a unique email address or link for each contact, so he can use it to unsubscribe.

Romain

[ro78]

Of course you can :)

[catphish]

I'd suggest the person to ask is @adamcooke as he usually merges and he's very particular about UX and design :1st_place_medal:

[adamcooke]

This isn't really something that would fit anywhere in Postal. Postal is an MTA and isn't responsible for managing contact lists or address books.

This is functionality that really should be in another application.

See: https://github.com/atech/postal/wiki/FAQs#can-you-add-mailing-list-feature

[ro78]

From my point of view Postal is not only a MTA but a complete ESP solution, and integrate such feature will be great.