ARCHIVE: Massmailer: manage mailing lists

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This documentation refers to the mass mailer in CVS head that has support for CiviCRM integrated. It requires PHP client version to run on your server.

The massmailer module allows you to create newsletter style mailing lists that visitors to your website can subscribe to. It provides an interface to then email your subscribers in bulk, manage your subscription lists, and create and delete lists. The mass mailer module is built in such a way that it is possible to swap out the mass mailing back-end or engines. Currently the only usable engine is phplist. However, this module has aspirations for great mailing engines. Mass mailer should be used for mailings to large numbers of users where the mailings must be queued up on the server.

Mass mailer requires a mailing engine such as the phplist module to be enabled and selected in the mass mailing settings. Configuring phplist can be difficult and requires settings to be set up correctly on your webserver.

You can

• read about PHPList and the PHPList user manual.
• use mass mailer if you enable the phplist module at administer >> modules.
• administer massmailer and select phplist to enable mass mailing at administer >> settings >> massmailer.
• create and configure mailing lists at administer >> mass mailer.
• manage messages at administer >> mass mailer >> manage messages.
• compose messages at administer >> mass mailer >> manage messages >> create new message.
• send messages at administer >> mass mailer >> send messages.
• manage subscribers at administer >> mass mailer >> manage subscribers.
• subscribe to mailing lists and unsubscribe from mailing lists at list subscriptions.
• file issues, read about known bugs, and download the latest version on the Mass Mailer project page.