Direct Mail

Copyright © by Ivan Kartolo <ivan.kartolo@no spam pleasedkd.de>
Published under the Open Content License available from http://www.opencontent.org/opl.shtml

Table Of Contents

• 1. Copyright
  • 1.1. Credits
  • 1.2. Sponsors
• 2. Introduction
  • 2.1. What does it do?
  • 2.2. Requirements
• 3. Users Manual
  • 3.1. Summary of the Direct Mail process
  • 3.2. Accessing the Direct Mail module
  • 3.3. The Direct Mail Wizard
  • 3.4. Personalizing direct mail content
  • 3.5. Types of recipient lists
  • 3.6. Importing a csv list of email addresses
• 4. Configuration
  • 4.1. Installing the extension
  • 4.2. Creating a Direct Mail folder
  • 4.3. Configuring the Direct Mail module in Page TSConfig
  • 4.4. Configuring the Direct Mail importer Module in Page TSConfig
  • 4.5. Configuring the Direct Mail Wizard in User TSConfig
  • 4.6. Configuring the Calendar of the Direct Mail Wizard
  • 4.7. Configuring the TS template for newsletter pages
  • 4.8. Configuring plain text rendering
    • Constants
    • Setup
  • 4.9. Configuring plain text rendering of News records
    • Setup
  • 4.10. Configuring the use of categories
    • Setup
  • 4.11. Enabling click statistics
  • 4.12. Automatically invoke the mailer engine.
    • Configuring direct_mail on Scheduler
    • The first job sends the mail out. The second one creates a mailing object based on the configuration saved in the “Direct Mail” module, with checked “Save these settings as draft” checkbox.
    • Configuring the mailer engine cron task
    • This is deprecated and will be removed in the near future.
    • Configuring the CLI script
    • Configuring direct_mail on Gabriel
    • This is also deprecated, since Gabriel extension is renamed Scheduler and since 4.5.x a system extension.
  • 4.13. Using Sendmail deferred delivery mode
  • 4.14. Configuring the analysis of returned mails
  • 4.15. Configuring SMTP
• 5. Upgrading
  • 5.1. Upgrading to version 2.6.4
  • 5.2. Upgrading to version 2.5.0
  • 5.3. Upgrading to version 2.0+
• 6. Troubleshooting
  • 6.1. Direct mails are not sent
  • 6.2. Mass mail is only delivered after sending another mail from same MAC OS X server
• 7. Known Problems
• 8. Change Log

This document is related to version 2.7.0 of the extension direct_mail.