Mailings: New Mailing: Message
The fields on the Essentials page are required for all mailings you create. For a step-by-step guide to making mailings, see Mailings: New Mailing.
Mailing Name
Select a name to identify your mailing. This name is not seen by message recipients, so label the mailing in a way that will help you to identify it later in the Mailings main page. 70 characters are allowed in the Mailing Name field.
From:
Required. The name and email address that should appear in the message's From: line. By default, your email address will appear in this field. To insert mail merge tags or conditional text, create content and import it into your mailing.
Examples of valid values for this field:
bob@example.com
Bob Smith <bob@example.com>
bob@example.com (Bob Smith)
"Bob Smith" <bob@example.com>
To:
Required. The name and email address that should appear in the message's To: line. By default, the mail merge tag %%nameemail%% appears in this field, which will merge in each recipient's name and email address. To insert mail merge tags or conditional text, create content and import it into your mailing.
The To: field does not actually select the message's recipients. To specify the recipients, click on the Mailings: New Mailing: Recipients tab.
Examples of valid values for this field:
%%nameemail%%
"Jazztalk Announcements" <jazztalk@lm.example.com>
Subject:
Required. The text which will appear in the message's Subject: line. To insert mail merge tags or conditional text, create content and import it into your mailing.
Text message
The plain-text contents of this message.
Text copied and pasted from word processing programs such as Word may include extra characters, so it should be pasted into a plain-text editor first before being copied into the Text Message.
If your content also includes an HTML message, your message will be sent out with both text and HTML. This kind of message is called multipart-alternative format, and it ensures that recipients who can read HTML see only HTML, but those who can't see the plain text message.
To insert mail merge tags or conditional text, create content and import it into your mailing.
HTML message
The HTML contents of your message.If you are using Windows Internet Explorer 5.5 or higher, youmay use the HTML editor.
If you are including images in your HTML, make sure that the path for your images is the absolute path (the complete URL), not the relative path. For example, your HTML editor might make the path for a image to be something like /img/product.jpg. These should be changed to the absolute path:
http://example.com/img/product.jpg
If your content also includes a text message, your message will be sent out with both text and HTML. This kind of message is called multipart-alternative format, and it ensures that recipients who can read HTML see only HTML, but those who can't will see the plain text message.
Keep in mind that not everyone can read HTML, so it's a good idea to always include a text message as well.
To insert mail merge tags or conditional text, create content and import it into your mailing.
Preview
When clicked, displays the message in the ListManager interface for a random member, or for the address you enter.
Import Content
Imports content into the mailing that has already been created in Content.
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Save
Saves your mailing, and takes you to the Mailings: Needs Approval page
Save and Test
Saves your mailing, and takes you to the Mailings: Test Mailing page.
Important note for users of earlier versions of ListManager: The list, site or server message wrapping will not be automatically included to your message if you create it through the ListManager administrator GUI unless it is enabled in Utilities: List Settings: Web Created Content. Please remember to add these instructions to your content or mailing, or send the message to the list via email. See Content: Insert Field: Unsubscribe to see how to do so quickly and easily.
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