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I'm new to the "rules" modules and recently used it create Drupal accounts automatically, following petednz's great blog post. Now I want to use 'rules' everywhere ;-)

I was wondering if there is a way to send a CiviMail mailing automatically when a new node is published in Drupal?

For example:

- A new (drupal) event/node is posted in the calendar, and we want all users to be notified immediately (as well as track clicks, bounces, etc).
- Automate the mailing of a newsletter: publish the node in Drupal, and it automatically triggers the mailing (well, ideally, in 'planned' status, waiting for review).

Is it already possible? If not, I would be interested to implement it.

- new civicrm_rules_civimail module?
- in the rules config, let the user select a mailing title, include group(s), subject, body, header/footer, send now (or not).

For what it's worth, I also evaluated the following alternatives:

- The 'notification' module in Drupal is abandoned, and 'subscription' only allows to subscribe to a specific node(?). In any case, the UI is kind of terrible, and I want to manage subscriptions in CiviCRM.
- There are ways to send notifications using rules and views_rule (to fetch the list of recipients, which can be fetched from CiviCRM). It's interesting, but being able to use CiviCRM for sending mails and tracking stats seems way more interesting.

If I'm missing anything obvious, please let me know :-)

Mathieu

Very cool initiative! By "this year", do you mean by the end of 2015? or CiviCRM 4.6/4.7? :-)

Hey @mathieu I want to do exactly what you explain in your OP. Did you get this working? Have you looked at the "CiviCRM Mailing: Send Email" action provided by CiviCRM Rules Integration?

The development of the basic CiviRules extension has continued. We are testing and implementing in the coming months. The extension code can be found at https://github.com/CiviCooP/org.civicoop.civirules. Documentation at http://redmine.civicoop.org/projects/civirules/wiki and there is a demo possibility at https://civirules.edeveloper.nl/