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Mailing List
Version 5.4 saw the introduction
of the mailing list / newsletter feature. This allows your customers
to sign up for the mailing list through their client login account
or on checkout and have their email details stored for later use.
Managing the mailing list
The first screen you will see when clicking on
the Mailing List link in the admin home page should look like
this:
From this screen you can list or search for
members, add new entries and send out your newsletter.
Click on "List Results" to see all the emails
from customers who have signed up.
You will see a "Confirm" button if the client
hasn't confirmed their email address yet and when you send out
the newsletter, they will not receive the email. To send out
your newsletter, click on "Send Email to List".
The screen explained
Send To:
- Admin email - this is to test your mailing before sending
it out to the world. The email address entered in your main
admin settings will be the only recipient.
- Selected emails - this will send out the newsletter to the
emails returned on a previous search of the database.
- Entire mailing list - this will send an email to all the
confirmed addresses in the mailing list.
- Entire affiliate list (Version 5.7.0 required) - this will
send an email to your affiliates.
Email Format
- Text - this will send out the newsletter in plain text format
- HTML - This allows you to add HTML to the format the text.
You will also need this setting in vsadmin/includes.asp or
vsadmin/includes.php
Send in batches of
- Some hosts will place a limit on the number of email sent
at one time. If that is the case you can select the number
of emails you want sent in each batch. Copy the newsletter
text
into the main field as normal and click on send, that will
send the number of emails defined in the batch field. Hit the
back button to repeat until all the emails have been sent to
your list. When you are finished, click on the button labeled
"Clear Sent List".
From email - the email address
you want the newsletter sent from Email Subject - the subject line of the email.
Unsubscribe Link - this will add the URL of the
unsubscribe link to the email. If the customer follows the link
in the email, they will automatically be deleted from the mailing
list.
Note: from version 5.7.0 it
is possible to address the recipient by name, by beginning
the email with something
like Dear %name%
Tweaks
By default the customer will receive an email to
confirm / verify their newsletter sign up. This will contain a
link to follow to complete confirmation. If you prefer the customer
not to receive this mail then you will need this addition to vsadmin/includes.asp or vsadmin/includes.php
The text informing the customer of the arriving
confirmation email can be edited in vsadmin/inc/languagefile.asp
or languagefile.php
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