Mailing List System

The concrete5 mailing list package allows you to send emails & newsletters to any group, and allows your users to easily subscribe and unsubscribe. And unlike other mailing list systems, the Mailing List package integrates well with your concrete5 site, doesn't require that you pay a recuring monthly fee.

This system consists of three main parts:

• A new Mailing List section within the dashboard
• A Mailing List Subscriptions block that allows your users to subscribe to mailing list groups
• A Manage Subscriptions page, where users can cancel subscriptions, or optionally verify their email addresses when subscribing.

Package Features:

• Send HTML emails, and have a plain text version auto-generated.
• It automatically includes unsubscribe text & links with each email.
• Choose whether unregistered or just the registered users can subscribe, and automatically provide sign-up
• When sending to thousands of recipients, you can slow the send rate of mailing so your server doesn't get bogged down.
• If the send process is interrupted for any reason, you can resume sending where it stopped.
• Enter your own header and footer HTML, to customize the look of your mailings. 
• Export recipient lists in Excel or CSV format. 
• *New* If you already have a database of mailing list subscriber emails, you can easily import them.
• *New* Attach files to your mailings
• *New* Collect & include user attributes, like first and last name, within your mailings
• *New* Browse, subscribe, and unsubscribe users from the dashboard

Need help?  Check out the Troubleshooting Guide:
http://inneroptics.net/concrete5/mailing-list/troubleshooting/


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Note: Sending large volumes of bulk mail can create both technical and legal challenges. If you're using this to send out lots of messages, you should make sure your hosting company allows it, and you should make sure the list of emails complies with your local spam control laws.  Also, if for some reason emails get flagged as spam or are not recieved, chances are it's going to be related to your concrete5 core & server configurations.  I'll help you troubleshoot any issues you have up to the point where the emails are sent and logged in the reports page. If you still have any issues beyond that try enabling SMTP emails via the dashboard, setting up an SPF DNS record, and/or making sure the from email address is from the same domain as your mail server. However, for most installations these additional steps are unnecessary.

More information and troubleshooting assistance is available here: http://inneroptics.net/concrete5/mailing-list/troubleshooting/

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