Configuring advanced newsletter/discussion list properties

Creating a custom footer for the list

From the Footer tab configure a custom discussion list footer. A footer is added to each email sent to the list.
Use the HTML editor to add an HTML version of the footer. To add variable fields in the list footer, navigate to Insert > Variables. Select the variable to add and click Add.
You can also enter a plain text footer for plain text lists. Click Variable... to add variable fields.
Click Apply.

Tip

You can use footers to show how users can subscribe/unsubscribe from list and/or to promote your social media channels.

Setting permissions to newsletters

Specify the users who can submit newsletters.

NOTE

Permissions are not configurable for discussion lists.

Open an existing or create a new list and go to the Permissions tab.
Key in an email address that can send newsletters and click Add. The email address is added to the list.
A newsletter password secures access to newsletter in case someone else makes use of the email client or account details of a permitted user. Enable passwords by selecting the Password required: checkbox and providing a password.

NOTE

When sending emails to the newsletter, users must authenticate themselves by including the password in the email subject field. Password must be specified in the subject field as follows:

[PASSWORD:<password>] <Subject of the email>

Example: [PASSWORD:letmepost]Special Offer.

If password is correct, the list server automatically removes the password details from subject and relays email to newsletter subscribers.

Click Apply.

Manually adding subscribers to the list

Manually add users to newsletters/discussions without any action on their behalf.

NOTE

It is highly recommended that users subscribe themselves to the list by sending an email to the subscribe newsletter/discussion address. Ensure that you have users' authorization before manually adding them to the list.

Open an existing or create a new list and go to the Subscribers tab.
Key in the subscriber details in Email Address (required), First name, Last name and Company fields and click Add. The new subscriber email address is added to list.
To remove users from the subscription list table when unsubscribing from the list (and not just flag them as unsubscribed) select Delete from database when user unsubscribes checkbox.
Click Apply.

Importing subscribers to the list / database structure

When a new newsletter or discussion list is created, a table called 'listname_subscribers' with the following fields is created in the database.

To import data into the list, populate the database with data in the following fields.

Field Name	Type	Default Value	Flags	Description
Ls_id	Varchar(100)		PK	Subscriber ID
Ls_first	Varchar(250)			First name
Ls_last	Varchar(250)			Last name
Ls_email	Varchar(250)			Email
Ls_unsubscribed	Int	0	NOT NULL	Unsubscribe flag
Ls_company	Varchar(250)			Company name