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title: "Universal Messenger"
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# Universal Messenger {#start}

-   *Extension key:* universal_messenger
-   *Package name:* netresearch/universal-messenger
-   *Version:* release
-   *Language:* en
-   *Author:* Rico Sonntag
-   *License:*

    This document is published under the
    [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)
    license. The extension itself is proprietary software, see the
    `LICENSE` file in the repository root.

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A TYPO3 extension that provides a backend module to compose TYPO3 pages as
newsletters and send them through the [Universal Messenger](https://www.universal-messenger.de/) API.

Editors build a newsletter with the usual TYPO3 content elements on a
dedicated **Newsletter** page type, preview it per language in a
backend module, and send it as a test or live dispatch to a channel
imported from Universal Messenger.

**🚀 Introduction**

What the extension does, requirements and compatibility.

[Read more](https://docs.typo3.org/permalink/universal_messenger:introduction@main)

**💻 Installation**

Installing the extension via Composer and setting up the database.

[Read more](https://docs.typo3.org/permalink/universal_messenger:installation@main)

**⚙️ Configuration**

Webservice credentials, extension settings, backend user rights and
TypoScript.

[Read more](https://docs.typo3.org/permalink/universal_messenger:configuration@main)

**📧 Usage**

Creating newsletters, content elements, ViewHelpers and the
dispatch module.

[Read more](https://docs.typo3.org/permalink/universal_messenger:usage@main)