Part 5: Mailings (3 of 4)

Tracking opens or HTML capability

1. Follow the steps to create a new mailing, but before saving your message, click on the Tracking tab:

   

2. Select "yes" for Track Opens to track how many people open your message.

3. Select "yes" for Detect HTML Capability to track whether recipients can receive HTML.

4. Click on OK, and continue composing your message. When you're done, click on Save or Save and Test.

Scheduling a message

1. Follow the steps to create a new mailing, but before saving your message, click on the Schedule tab:

   

2. If you check wait for approval, it won’t be scheduled, but will be sent when the mailing is ready and approved. To schedule it, click the schedule for radio button and type in the date and time you'd like the message to be sent. Use one of the following formats:

   		For example:
   YYYY-MM-DD HH-MM-SS MM/DD/YY YYYY-MM-DD		2004-05-01 10:15:00 05/01/04 2004-05-01

3. By default, the date and time shown in your message showing when it was sent will be rewritten to be the time you schedule it to be sent. If you'd like it to be the date when it was created, change Rewrite Date When Sent to No.

4. Click on OK, and continue composing your message. When you're done, click on 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.
1. Follow the steps to create a new mailing, but before saving your message, click on the Schedule tab.

2. 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

3. Enter the number of days ListManager should wait before resending this message in Resend After This Many Days. If you enter 1, it will be sent every day; if you enter 7, every week.

4. Click on OK, and continue composing your message. When you're done, click on Save or Save and Test. You may also schedule your message in Mailings: Need Approval.

Sending to your list via email

To send to your list via email, send an email message to yourlistname@yourservername.com (e.g., newsletter@acme.sparklist.com). You will need to approve the message in Mailings: Need Approval before it is sent to your list.

What's next?

• Continue learning about Mailings (part 4 of 4)
• Skip to Part 6: Reports
• Return to the Getting Started main page