Create mailing

  1. Choose source

    Click the blue/white envelope icon of the MAIL wizard module.

    Choose the MAIL sys-folder and move over to the main content area of this module, where the accordion for "Internal Page" should now show the previous created MAIL page.

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    With the two page preview buttons (page-eye-icon) you can get an idea how the mail will look like at the mail client of the recipient later.

    To continue click the NEXT button to get to the settings page.

  2. Settings

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    On this page you can check and adjust the settings of the mail, whose defaults can be changed via the configuration on the previous page.

    You can either change individual values by clicking on them, or edit all of them at once by clicking the edit button.

    At this place it is also possible to add attachments by clicking on the paper clip button.

    Note

    Since the process of fetching, parsing, modifying, thumbnail generation and storing needs a lot of time and energy, it happens automatically only once. If you have changed any content on the source page (internal or external) you have to press the double cycle icon in the type row to update the mail content.

    If done, click NEXT again to get to the category settings.

  3. Categories

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    Since it is possible to choose categories inside the different recipient sources (eg. fe_users, tt_address) it must also be possible to set categories inside the different content elements.

    This is what can be done here.

    During moving your mouse over a row of categories the corresponding content elements on the right side gets highlighted.

    To see categories at this place, they must be defined before, of course. How this can be done is described in the TYPO3 core api reference.

    But for now you can skip this step by click on NEXT, which brings you to the fourth step: test mail

  4. Test mail

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    Here you can send a simple test mail to one or a list of mail addresses. But beware: The generated mail will include ALL content elements regardless of their categories. User fields will NOT be substituted with data.

    After pressing NEXT another time, you reached the last point of this wizard: Schedule sending

  5. Schedule sending

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    On this site you can choose one (or more) recipient groups and the date/time when distribution should start.

    For our test, just choose the recipient group you created in the Create recipient group step and press FINISH.