Purge from
Aurea List Manager gives you the ability to remove or purge recipients who were sent previous messages. For example, if you want to test the effectiveness of your message by sending it to half of your list and later, want to send a message to the list members who were not included in the first mailing. You can purge the recipients of the previous message, so your members only receive one message from you.
Note
In this case, recipients are purged even if they were sent the initial mailing but did not actually receive it.
You can purge recipients of sent messages and/or scheduled message. After a mailing has been saved, you can not select messages to purge it against.
By default, you send the mailing to all recipients in the list or subset.
If your list is not configured to allow you to purge recipients, you are going to see the Enable purge feature button. To enable purging:
- Clicking enable purge feature to open the Utilities > List Settings > Basic Information > Enable Features button.
- Change Save Recipient Info to Enable Purge Mailings to Yes.
- Change Save Messages to Enable Merge Mailings to Yes.
- Click Save.
Check Utilities > List Settings > Automatic Maintenance > Purging Archives to make sure archives are being saved for a sufficient period of time.
You can nor be able to purge recipients in future mailings.
After you enable purging, click the Back button on your browser or the OK button to return to the Mailings > New Mailing > Recipients page.
To purge recipients
- Click Choose Mailings.
- In the Available Sent Mailings to Purge From and/or Available Scheduled Mailings to Purge From list, select the message you want.
- To select multiple messages, hold down the CTRL key while selecting each message.
- Click >>.
- To deselect a message, select it in the Chosen Sent Mailings to Purge From or Chosen Scheduled Mailings to Purge From list, then click <<.
- Click OK to return to the Mailings > New Mailing > Recipients page.
Important
In Aurea List Manager 7.8, the merging/purging logic was changed to make the process faster, more efficient, and more robust. When upgrading to later versions, you are not able to purge against mailings older than the date set in your outmail. You are not be able to purge against records that were not in the outmail queue before the upgrade.