How to send an email
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[[How to create an email ad]] | [[How to create an email ad]] | ||
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[[Email Ad Scheduler]] | [[Email Ad Scheduler]] | ||
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[[Category:Usage]] | [[Category:Usage]] | ||
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First create all email ads you want to be included to the email.
Then go to the Massmailer by clicking on "Send Email" on the top menu or by clicking the "Massmailer" link from the eMail Ad Manager.
Scroll down to the bottom of the page to create a new email to be sent and fill the send options:
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Total emails to send |
To how many users you want the email to be sent. Default value is Auto which means that the script will calculate the members in target groups (see below) and send the email to all members in the target. |
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Headerset |
Choose the headerset to use in this email. Please see Email Sets Editor for details how to create a headerset. |
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Send as |
Choose eiter HTML email or plain text email. |
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Character Set |
Character set for the email. Default values is iso-8859-1 |
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Subject of email |
The title of the email. It's recommended to keep the title relatively short. |
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High Priority |
If set to yes the email will be sent before any other unsent emails in the massmailer queue. Default value is no (unticked). |
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Internal inboxes only |
Do you want the email to be sent to internal inboxes only. Default value is no (unticked). |
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You can see two boxes. The upper box contains all email ads in the system and their ad codes and the lower one is empty. To the empty box insert possible text and all email ads you want to be included to the email. Example of an email: <PM>200809171533123235</PM> <PM>200809171533127385</PM> More links: <PM>200809162013046511</PM> <PM>200809121048236815</PM> |
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Membership Types |
Choose user groups in target and then choose one of the three activity options:
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Targeting |
You can further define the targetin by selecting specific Keywords, Countries and/or States. Do not select any targeting if you want to send to everyone in the selected membership type(s) |
Then click on "Save Email"
The email ad will appear on the top of the mailer queue. To send the email click on the "Send" button. Now the email ad is in mailer queue. The mailer sends one email every time the cron job runs, so if there aren't any other emails the the queue and your cron job is set to default 10 minutes your email will be sent within 10 minutes.
