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After you have created a newsletter, you can start posting news messages to that newsletter.
To post a message, follow the instructions provided below:
| 1. | In the 'Newsletters' section of the 'Management' menu locate the newsletter in the list of available newsletters and click on the 'Post new message...' button. The 'Newsletter messages' section will open with the 'Post new message' form (Figure 7). |
Figure 7: Posting a new message
| 2. | In the mandatory 'Subject' field type in the title for the news announcement as it will appear in the news headlines box at the customer front-end. |
| 3. | In the 'Message text' field type in the full text of the news message either in plain-text or HTML format. |
| 4. | Next you must decide whether the message should be sent out to its subscribers or not. To send the message to the newsletter's subscribers right away, click on the 'Post and send out' button. If you want to see how an e-mailed message will look before actually sending it out to subscribers, type in your testing e-mail address in the 'Test e-mail' field and click on 'Post and test message'. You can send a test message to more than one e-mail address by providing a comma-separated list of e-mails in the 'Test e-mail' field, or you can leave the field blank if you do not want to make any testing and just wish to create a message without e-mailing it to anybody. |
Once posted, a message appears in the 'Newsletter messages' page under the 'Existing messages' subtitle (Figure 8). To manipulate a message in the list you first need to select it by placing checkbox next to it. You can also select and manipulate all messages at once by placing a check-mark in the checkbox at the top of the list. Selected messages can be sent out to the newsletter's subscribers once again by clicking on the 'Resend selected' button (if the message was originally posted to the newsletter without being sent out to the newsletter's subscribers, it can later be distributed to the subscribers using this method). Selected messages can also be removed from the list by clicking on the 'Delete selected' button.
Figure 8: 'Existing messages' list
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