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phpList 2 E-mail Campaign Manager

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phpList 2 E-mail Campaign Manager

Overview of this book

Tired of an e-mail BCC list that scrolls off the page, or fiddly and hard-to-manage bulk mailing systems? You need phpList – a high-powered, robust, feature-packed mailing system that will get out of your way and get the job done! You want to know more about phpList? phpList is a popular open source e-mail campaign manager, sporting a powerful web frontend, rich message editor, and an advanced feature set. phpList 2 E-mail Campaign Manager will guide you from basic installation and setup through management, reporting, and automation of phpList, the world's most popular open source e-mail campaign manager. It also covers advanced customization and configuration of phpList. We start with a basic configuration, and finish with a full-featured e-mail management engine. You will work your way up from basic installation to advanced topics such as bounce automation, user and click-through tracking, and integration with third-party tools such as WordPress, Joomla!, Drupal, and Blogger. Advanced topics such as securing your installation against spammers, attacks, and vulnerabilities are covered, as well as additional advanced and experimental features offered by phpList. This book is an invaluable guide for any e-mail publisher who wants a robust and powerful engine to manage their small-to-huge e-mail distribution empire.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
phpList 2 E-mail Campaign Manager
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Individual user management


Let's start with creating some users. Click on the users link in the right-hand navigation panel or under the List and user functions heading to go to the user management page:

You are presented with the list of users (if there are too many users to display, phpList will prompt you to search for a subset of users). We have already added a user in the first chapter, so let's edit that user. Click on the user's e-mail address to edit their account:

Updating a user's details and list memberships (as the user)

phpList provides a unique URL for each user to update their details, including their e-mail address, list memberships, and any other attributes you've defined. This URL can be added to the footer of your messages using the variable substitutions discussed in the following chapter.

To see what the user would see on this page, click on the update page link:

You are redirected to a URL specific to this user's preferences. (This is the same URL the user would be directed...