Automatically send recurring emails to subscribers?

[elliotharmon]

I'm sorry for what I'm sure is a stupid question. I've spent the last three hours reading documentation online and am still pretty lost.

We'd like to send subscribers a series of canned weekly emails in the first four weeks after they subscribe to our newsletter.

My first thought was to use smart groups, but I can't figure out how to set up automatically recurring emails to go to each smart group.

My second idea was to use the Reminders feature, but it appears that I can only set reminders for memberships, not for groups. We don't use memberships at all. Is there a way to auto-enroll people in a membership when they subscribe for our newsletter?

Or maybe there's some better way of doing all of this that I'm not thinking of?

Thanks a lot,
Elliot

[FrTommy]

There might be a better way but off the top of my head I can't think of anything except to create a hook to record an activity of Join Group when a person joins the group. Then use Schedule Reminders to trigger emails based on that activity.

Or you could hire a developer to expose the group entity to the Schedule Reminders so that it could trigger things itself.

[Michael McAndrew]

Since you are on Drupal, you could use a webform for the group sign up.  This would enable you to record an activity when they sign up to the group, which you can then use as the basis for the scheduled reminder.

Hence you are doing what FrTommy says but replacing the hook with a webform, which is probably a more maintainable way to do things

[FrTommy]

Yeah what MIchael said. I forgot that webform let you create an activity like that.