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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

Creating a list


On the list page, all current active and inactive lists are displayed. In the introductory chapter, we activated the default "test" list. Let's now go into more detail and create a new list. Click on the add a list link to add a new list:

Enter a name for your new list, check the checkbox to make it active, and enter an optional description. If you had a huge selection of lists, you could manually arrange the order in which they are displayed by changing the value of the order. Click on Save to create your list:

You are returned to the lists page. We can tell that our list has been created, but that it currently has zero members:

Now that we've created the list, we can edit it (the same information we just entered), delete it, or perform member operations on it.

Performing member operations on a list

When you click on view members next to a particular list on the lists page, you are shown all (or a subset of) the members of that list. From here, you can bulk move or copy either...