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DM - Recipient List - Creating Mail Groups

  • To create Mail Groups select Recipient List from the dropdown menu

    and you will see now this view to select the Mail Group
    Select Mail Group
  • You now can create a new mail group or
  • import a CSV file with names

Mail Group Types

  • Selecting Create New Mail Group opens up this form.
     
  • By default From pages is selected but there are more choices
    • Plain List
    • Static Group
    • Special Query
    • Other Mail Groups

From Pages Type

The 'From Pages Type' uses address that are found on pages in the website. You select a starting point which in the example is the 'Direct Mail Module' File. The reason I chose this starting point is that all subscription addresses are stored with that file.

To see all the addresses

  • Select Page in the Typo3 column
  • then Direct Mail Module in the Navigation column
  • and in the work area you will see page header and page content information and addresses.  For a screen shot go to Editing DMM Content.

  1. Title
    Give your group a title that is descriptive
  2. Description
    Fill in the description field
  3. Startingpoint 
    Select the starting point by clicking on the ' Browse for records' button and select the file you want as starting point for collecting your addresses for this group. This is the ID of the page that contains the DirectMail Subscription plugin as a page content.
  4. Recursive
    I haven't quite figured out yet what this does exactly
  5. Tables
    The mail group is based on the users email addresses
  6. Must Attend Categories
    If you create lists with subscribers to specific categories you can set that category here. Now all the people on this list will only get the information destined for that particular category.
  7. Save the group.

Plain List Type

The Plain List Type does exactly what it says. It will send only plain text mail, no HTML. In this type you have to add your addresses manually in the Recipients box.

Plain List Mail Group Type

  1. Title
    Give your group a title that is descriptive
  2. Description
    Fill in the description field
  3. Recipients
    The emails have to be entered in a specific way for the list to work. There are 2 choices:
    [a] email space comma and then press the enter key for a new line
    [b] CSV [name],[email] - I have not been able to get this to work and can't tell you what the format is.
  4. Save the group

Static Group Type

In the 'Static Group Type' email addresses have to be manually added to the group.

  1. Title
    Give your group a title that is descriptive
  2. Description
    Fill in the description field
  3. Recipients
    Click on the ' Browse for records' button and select the email from the address options that are given.
  4. Save the group

Special Query Type

I have no idea how to use this type and can't explain it as the form only has 3 boxes: Type, Title and Description.

Maybe somebody reading this can email me and explain it so that I can post it.

Other Mail Groups Types

In the Other Mail Groups Type you can combine different mail groups to create one mailing.

Other Mail Groups Type

  1. Title
    Give your group a title that is descriptive
  2. Description
    Fill in the description field
  3. Other mailgroups
    Select the  'Browse for records' button and select the group(s) from the list
    Select other mail groups
  4. Save the group
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