MailPoet is a trusted gem of a plugin; great for newsletters and notifications

  • I’m a website developer. I’ve been using MailPoet for almost a decade now and watched it grow and develop into a true gem of a plugin. It’s a great newsletter and post notification plugin. It has distinct advantages over other services such as Constant Contact and Mailchimp:

    • Your list is kept on your WordPress server – no need to synchronize or export/import lists.
    • It is free for small lists.
    • It can automatically email your list whenever you post something new – a real timesaver!

    Its mailing service is reliable and fast. And I appreciate the mailing statistics reported right in WordPress.

    I do wish there was better support for custom post types triggering post notification emails, but this is a small thing that barely detracts from the wholesome goodness of MailPoet.

    Bottom line: A great plugin if you want to send newsletters from your website.

    • This topic was modified 7 years, 3 months ago by Larry Daniele. Reason: Responded to additional information from MailPoet support
    • This topic was modified 5 months ago by Larry Daniele. Reason: Updated review because IIS support is irrelevant now
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  • Hi Larry,

    It is too bad that you chose to write a negative review rather than seeking support. The issue was due to us displaying an incorrect notice to IIS users and it’s been fixed in the latest release.

    MailPoet 3 does not work on IIS and we recommend Apache/NGINX as a web server. If you do switch hosting providers, we will be happy to have you as a user!

    Regards,
    MailPoet Team.

    Hi MailPeot Team,
    I have the same problem “MailPoet plugin cannot run under Microsoft’s Internet Information Services (IIS) web server. We recommend that you use a web server powered by Apache or NGINX”.

    We are running 15 Domains on the machine for several reasons (not only Websites). We can not switch to a different system.

    Will in the future MailPoet3 run on IIS?

    Best regards,
    Stefan

    Hi,

    Unfortunately we do not plan to support IIS. Or plugin runs fine on Windows but it requires Apache/NGINX.

    Regards,
    MailPoet Team.

    Thread Starter Larry Daniele

    (@larrydaniele)

    Would it be possible to have a little more explanation about why you’ve decided to drop IIS support in MailPoet 3? It worked in the past, so I assume it’s not impossible. Is adding IIS support something that interested members of the community can help with?

    Larry et al.,

    Only an extremely small percentage of our customers use IIS, so besides some technical challenges (our new cron implementation was reported to malfunction on IIS), it was a business decision not to dedicate resources to testing and supporting the plugin on IIS.

    Regards,
    MailPoet Team.

    Hi,

    Not nice to here that Pailpoet 3 not support IIS. I did not choose IIS, the hosting provider did. And yes, i get the error message in WordPress.

    What is exactly the reason? And is the a workaround?
    Moving to a other hosting platform is much work…

    Greetz,

    Berto

    Doctor Boo, to explain in layman’s terms:

    1. MailPoet sends emails in batches because we can’t send them all at once.
    2. Those batches need to send one after the other.
    3. The event manager to trigger the sending is problematic on IIS.

    We’ve spent a good amount of time in the past helping IIS users. It’s a time sink that we simply can’t afford.

    There are thousands of configurations for servers for WordPress. We make a pretty outstanding job in covering the majority of these.

    We need to make the hard decision to not support some of them, and this includes IIS, unfortunately.

    Добрый день. Установил плагин MailPoet 3. Но активация на Windows IIS не идет. Сообщает, что платформа на IIS не поддерживается… Это плохо. Когда выйдет версия плагина MailPoet 3 с поддержкой IIS ? Пока остаюсь на плагине MailPoet 2 версии.
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    Good afternoon. Installed the plug-in MailPoet 3. But the activation on Windows IIS is not. Reports that the platform on IIS is not supported … This is bad. When will the version of the MailPoet 3 plug-in with IIS support be released? While I remain on the plug-in MailPoet 2 version.

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