Creating new mailings
You may then choose to send your mailing to your entire list, or selected segments. You may also purge recipients of previous messages if you have been saving that data.
Aurea List Manager Enterprise users can also send transactional messages.
Creating a New Mailing to Be Sent to Your Entire List
To create a simple mailing to your entire list, follow these instructions:
- In the left navigation bar, click Mailings, and then click New Mailing.
- Click Import content in the lower right corner to insert it into your message if you have already created content which you want to send. You may then skip steps 3-6 below. If not, create your message on the Message tab.
- Edit the Mailing Name field. This name is not seen by message recipients, so label the mailing in a way that helps you to identify it later. Only 70 characters are allowed in the Mailing Name field.
- For Aurea List Manager Enterprise only, in Message Type, select the type of message you want to create, normal or transactional.
- Edit the From: field. By default, your email address appears there.
- Edit the To: field. By default, the To: field is set to
%%nameemail%%
, which merges the name and email address of the recipient. - The To: field does not actually select the message's recipients. When building your mailing, you need to specify the segment or lists to whom you want to send the message.
- Enter the Subject: of the message. Recipients sees this line as the subject of the message they receive.
- Enter the Text Message and/or HTML Message you want to send.
You may create just a text or HTML body, and that is what is sent to your recipients. You can create both, and send a message that has both text and HTML. This format is called multipart-alternative, and Aurea List Manager creates the correct headers and boundaries automatically. Recipients who can see HTML only sees your HTML message; those who can not, sees the text.
- Click Preview to see what your message looks like in the interface. Click Save and Test to see what your message looks like in your email client.
- Clicking Save takes you to the Mailings > Need Approval Page, where you can send, test, schedule, copy, or delete the content you just created.
Sending to Different Lists or to Segments
- Follow the steps above to create a new mailing, but before saving your message, click on the RecipientsTab.
- Click Choose segments.
- Select the lists and segments that should receive this mailing. Only the segments and lists available to you is displayed here.
- Click on OK, and continue composing your message. When you are done, click Save or Save and Test.
Sending to a Sample of Your List
- Follow the steps above to create a new mailing, but before saving your message, click on the RecipientsTab.
- Enter the number of recipients who should receive a sample mailing in Sample size. Aurea List Manager selects a random sampling of your list of the size you have specified.
- Continue posting your message. When you're done, click Save or Save and Test.
- You may later purge these sample recipients when sending a new message.
Purging Recipients of Previous Mailings
- Follow the steps to create a new mailing, but before saving your message, click the Recipients Tab.
- Click Choose mailings to purge from.
- Select the mailings whose recipients should not receive this mailing.
- Click OK, and continue composing your message. When you are done, click Save or Save and Test.
Note
- Your list must be set to allow recipient purging. See Mailings: New Mailing: Recipients for more information about those settings.
- Recipients are purged even if they were sent the initial mailing but did not actually receive it.
Preventing Recipients from Receiving Too Much Email
- Follow the steps to create a new mailing, but before saving your message, click on the Recipients Tab.
- Click Edit recency.
- For Purge email addresses who have received, select More than.
- For This number of mailings, enter the maximum number of mailings a recipient should receive in the period of time specified.
- For In this past number of days, enter the number of days to check for the number of mailings specified above.
- Click on OK, and continue composing your message. When you're done, click Save or Save and Test.
Tracking Opens or HTML Capability
- Follow the steps to create a new mailing, but before saving your message, click on the TrackingTab.
- Select Yes for Track opens to track how many people open your message.
- Select Yes for Detect HTML Capability to track whether recipients can receive HTML.
- Continue composing your message. When you are done, click Save or Save and Test.
Scheduling a Message
Note
You cannot schedule a transactional message
- Follow the steps to create a new mailing, but before saving your message, click on the ScheduleTab.
- Type in the date and time you want the message to be sent in Send when. Use one of the following formats:
YYYY-MM-DD HH-MM-SS MM/DD/YY YYYY-MM-DD
- By default, the date and time shown in your message showing when it was sent is rewritten to be the time you schedule it to be sent. If you want it to be the date when it was created, change Rewrite Date When Sent to No.
- Continue composing your message. When you're done, click Save or Save and Test. You may also schedule your message in Mailings > Need Approval.
Creating a Recurring Message
It may be convenient to have the same mailing be resent every day, week or month if you are using conditional content to change the contents of the message sent, or if the message is sent to a segment such as all new members who joined on a certain date. A list FAQ can also be resent regularly, reminding list members of the list's rules.
- Follow the steps to create a new mailing, but before saving your message, click on the Schedule Tab.
- Type in the date and time in Send When. Use one of the following formats:
YYYY-MM-DD HH-MM-SS MM/DD/YY YYYY-MM-DD
- Enter the number of days Aurea List Manager should wait before resending this message in Resend after this many days. If you enter 1, it is sent every day; if you enter 7, every week.
- Click on OK, and continue composing your message. When you are done, click Save or Save and Test. You may also schedule your message in Mailings > Need Approval.
Important note for users of earlier versions of Aurea List Manager
The list, site or server message wrapping is not automatically included to your message if you create it through the Aurea List Manager administrator GUI. Please remember to add these instructions to your content or mailing, or send the message to the list via email.
For more information, see Unsubscribe in Insert FieldFor more information refer to Unsubscribe in Insert Field.