Besides the automatic e-mail notifications,
you have the possibility directly and selectively to inform users with
the newsletter. A newsletter is an e-mail that is sent to more than one
email address, in short a mass e-mail. Significant newsletters are
sent to a selected list of registered subscribers only. Therefore it
should be possible for users to register and unregister themselves for
receiving the newsletter. Only p-admins can send newsletters!
Preparing the subscribe and unsubscribe forms
You must initially prepare the subscribe and unsubscribe forms so that subscribers can subscribe for receiving the newsletter.
Procedure -> Position of newsletter forms
If you have already specified the position of the newsletter, you can now edit the details of the forms:
Procedure -> Editing subscribe and unsubscribe forms
Setting newsletter layout
If your form is ready, we recommend that you set your newsletter
layout, where you can store permanent data for the newsletter emails,
like sender information and footer text.
1) Click in the main menu on "Messages".
2) Click on the "modify" button in the row "Newsletter".
3) Click on the "modify" button in the row "Email layout defaults".
4) Fill out the shown fields. In the footer cell (Footer) you should
insert a link that leads to the unsubscribe form.
Writing a newsletter
If you are finished with preparing the subscribe and unsubscribe forms and setting the newsletter layout, you can write a newsletter at any time.
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