[Typo3-UG Denmark] Direct Mail Subscription

[Lars E. D. Jensen]

treg wrote:
> Jeg sidder med samme "problem" så hvis du finder ud af det vil jeg meget
> gerne høre fra dig.

Hvis dmail ellers er konfigureret korrekt, så scheduler man normalt en
compilet direct mail og invoker mailer enginen manuelt. Der er en step by
step guide i selve modulet:

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In this module you can create newsletters (pages), which can be emailed as 
'direct mails' to people on a subscription list.

To create a direct mail, you must follow these steps:
1) Select 'Newsletter' in the menu above.
2) Create a new 'newsletter'. Put content in that newsletter, save it,
preview 
it - exactly as you're used to with regular pages in TYPO3. Actually a 
'newsletter' in this context is simply a TYPO3 page destined for emailing!
3) Click your new newsletter in the list. Now you can see information about 
that page, categorize the content elements.
4) When your newsletter is ready to be distributed, click the link 'Create
new 
direct mail based on this page' and a new direct mail based on your 
newsletter is created.
5) The first thing to do with your new 'Direct Mail' is to fetch the mail 
content. This process reads the content from the page and compiles a mail
out 
of it.
6) Send a test. You should definitely send a testmail to yourself before 
mailing to your subscribers. Doing so, you can make sure that the mail and 
all links in it are correctly set up. Be aware if there are links to local 
network URLs. Those will not be accessible to the people receiving your 
newsletter!
7) Initialize distribution if everything is OK.

The difference of a newsletter and a direct mail
A 'newsletter' is basically a regular TYPO3 page which resides here in the 
direct mail module. You can view the page in a browser and the point is that 
this page is finally send as a direct mail.
A 'direct mail' is a record that contains a compiled version of either a 
newsletter page or alternatively the content of an external url. In addition 
the direct mail contains information like the mail subject, any attachments, 
priority settings, reply addresses and all that. For each direct mail a log 
is kept of who has received the direct mail and if they responded to it.


Data fields in direct mails:
You can insert personalized data in the mails by inserting these markers:
###USER_uid### (the unique id of the recipient)
###USER_name### (full name)
###USER_firstname### (first name calculated)
###USER_title###
###USER_email###
###USER_phone###
###USER_www###
###USER_address###
###USER_company###
###USER_city###
###USER_zip###
###USER_country###
###USER_fax###

###SYS_TABLE_NAME###
###SYS_MAIL_ID###
###SYS_AUTHCODE###

(In addition ###USER_NAME### and ###USER_FIRSTNAME### will insert uppercase 
versions of the equalents) 
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Med venlig hilsen / Best regards
Lars E. D. Jensen
lars at dangvard.dk