Select a name to identify your mailing. This name is not seen by message recipients, so label the mailing in a way that helps you to identify it later in the Mailings main page. 70 characters are allowed in the Mailing Name field.

The name and email address that should appear in the message's From: line. By default, your email address appears 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>

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 merges 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>

The text which appears in the message's Subject: line. To insert mail merge tags or conditional text, create content and import it into your mailing.

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 is 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 not see the plain text message.

To insert mail merge tags or conditional text, create content and import it into your mailing.

The HTML contents of your message.If you are using Windows Internet Explorer 5.5 or higher, you can 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 is 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 not sees the plain text message.

It is always a good idea to always include a text message as not everyone can read HTML.

To insert mail merge tags or conditional text, create content and import it into your mailing.

When clicked, it displays the message in the Aurea List Manager interface for a random member, or for the address you enter.

Imports content into the mailing that has already been created in Content.

Click show less to decrease by ten the number of lines visible in the message body.

Saves your mailing, and takes you to the Mailings > Needs Approval page