Understanding the screen:
Referring to the marked up image bellow:
- General subscriber info
- This "Recursive sending" feature is designed
to prevent your mail shots / newsletters being flagged as SPAM by your
host.
In step 5 of the install process you set a variable $emailbatch = 15; - 15 refers to the number of emails that the mod will process for sending at any one time. So, as you can see the settings as shown below will send 15 emails every 1 minutes.
By changing the delay setting to a higher number (say 10) you will send batches of 15 emails at 10 minute intervals until all emails have been sent. Different hosts have different rules regarding what they consider SPAMMING so its best to check with them, if in doubt, to find the setting that's not going to have you falsely accused of SPAM. (as a general rule a reasonably safe setting of 15 emails per 5 min's is unlikely to get you flagged) - The summary area reports on progress and problems etc with your mail shot - Please be patient if you are doing a Recursive send as it can take up to 5 mins after the last email as been sent to report a completed status. See screenshot
- From: & Name: fields auto filled from install instruction 5.
- To: field is populated by selecting the Email Record
set field from the drop down in 7
and
clicking the 
icon.
This will insert the code ##Email## into the To: field
and tells the mailer to pull the email addresses from the database
of subscribers. - You can choose to validate recipients’ email
addresses upon send by making sure the Validate checkbox is on. Before
sending each message the mailer will attempt to contact the recipient’s
server. If it fails the email address will be skipped and marked as “Non-existent” (not
in the database, but only for your Summary Report). This useful feature
can help you keep your database free of bogus data.
Under certain circumstances however the feature may fail!
For example: the application may crash or timeout in the middle of the send cycle when trying to contact a server that is not responding. There can be several reasons for that: your hosting server software version, net traffic conditions, your PHP version, etc. In any case it is better to test this feature first before trying to send a message to a large number of recipients:
- General dynamic content control that will merge certain database
info into the address or body of the email - hovering over the button
will bring up a tool tip for each item. For instance, you may want
to add the recipients EMAIL to the beginning of the mailshot.. by
positioning the cursor in the appropriate place within the body you
can click the
icon
and have the start of the message perhaps read:
Dear ##e-mail##, this will of course be converted to Dear John@yoursite.com etc when the email is sent.
- By checking Plain Text the email will be sent without
html content (Bold, underline etc) this is the safest method for maximum
deliver ability since some mail clients will refuse to display HTML
content unless explicitly told to do so.
By Checking the Test box you can enter a single email address in the To: field and is useful for sending a single mail for checking formatting etc as the full listing of clients might receive it.
Base URL is not used - Send
will
start the delivery of your mailer. - These are general text formatting options for HTML emails and can be applied by highlighting text and clicking.
- These are general editing functions as well as a preview button
- Special formatting and insert functions such as Horizontal rules, picture, tables etc
- Code view and Design view allows you to see how your email will look and make any code changes you may need. Clicking on the appropriate tab will switch between views.
- Text / code input area
Note: Its always a good idea to inform your clients of how to opt out of receiving your newsletter by including a link to your shopping carts client login page - further details can be found here
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