Send first email

Audience: Integrators

This tutorial walks you through the required steps to get your first email sent to some frontend users. By the way: A front end user is the user from the website where a backend user works in the back, the administration side from the website. The backend is accessible by adding typo3 to the domain.

  1. Test login

    Make sure you can login to the website. In most cases the system extension felogin is used for that. In case no login page is available it has to be created. Visit the felogin manual to learn more about setting up a login page.

  2. Installation

    Install the extension fromes. For further information head over to the tutorial on working with extensions.

  3. Create folder to store users

    Add a folder to the page tree and name it Fromes users. Make sure the page is visible.

  4. Add user group(s)

    Select the folder created in the previous step and add a user group with the name Fromes group. You might add more user groups to be able to select different groups later in the messenger panel.

  5. Add user(s)

    To the same folder where we added a user group add a user with the following field values: username = fromesuser1, Groups = Fromes group, First name = First, Last name = Last, Email = [your email address]. You might add more users and assign different groups to them to see how the group selection in the messenger panel works.

  6. Create page to show the messenger

    Add a page to the page tree and name it Fromes test page. Make sure the page is visible.

  7. Add messenger plugin

    Select the page created in the previous step and add the plugin Email messenger to it. Hint: The plugin is located in the Plugins-tab from the “New content element wizard”. Don’t forget to save…

  8. Create extension template

    Select the template module as well as the page Fromes test page and create an extension template.

  9. Include fromes template

    Edit the template created in the precious step and add Frontend messenger (fromes) to the field “Include static (from extension)”.

  10. Set fromes constants

    Leaving the template module as well as the page Fromes test page selected edit the fromes related constants by help of the constant editor. Adjust the constants User groups PIDs and User groups UIDs

  11. Send email

    Login to the website and visit the Fromes test page, select a user group from the filter section, select a user from the filter result section, add the selected user to the receiver list, compose the message and send it.