Send E-mail to the List
 

You can use your site's administration to send e-mail to everyone on the mailing list. It's also important to note that this same function can be used to send mail to specific groups of Users on your site.



To send an e-mail to your Mailing List:



  Click Send Email under Mailing List in the administration menu.

  The following page will already contain all of the same information from the last time you sent an e-mail to your mailing list. Every time you send an e-mail from this page, all of the information is saved for the next time you return.





  Enter Your Email address

  Enter a Subject

   For most messages, choose Plain Text as the Format

   To send your e-mail using pure HTML text, choose HTML at the Format. This is not recommended for a few reasons. Some e-mail clients cannot view HTML messages, and many will block images that you try to include in the HTML, and even other may treat HTML messages as unsolicited commercial e-mail.

  Enter a Heading. Since this information is saved, you may want to make the heading something that will be the same for every e-mail you send to your list, such as "Dear Subscriber:"





Enter the Body / Message of your e-mail.





Enter a Footer / Signature. Like the Heading, the information is saved and should be the same every time you send mail. This should include a formal closing and possibly your company's address, phone number, and your e-mail address.





  Choose Recipients:

   Leave the box checked labeled Mailing List Recipients to send to your site's Mailng List subscribers.

  Check the box next to any user Group or Subscriber Group that you would like to send this message to. This can be used as a quick way to send a message to all of your site's Members or Subscriber Groups.

  Click the Save & Preview button at the bottom of the page. The following page will display a preview of your e-mail message.





  Click the Send button to begin sending the e-mail.

  The following page tells you that the Email has been placed in the queue and is being send. This page also contains a link to the Status Page.

   The Status Page shows a progress bar and will refresh every 5 seconds. This page shows show many e-mail message have been send and how many will be sent total. Each recipient will receive an individual e-mail message. Depending on the number of recipients the mailing process may take a long time.





 While the mailing process is in progress, if you click Send Email under Mailing List in the administration menu, you will be taken to the Status Page




   After the message is finished sending, you will be able to send more messages.